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31 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
32 working with Pavel Curtis' original work, pcurses, in 1992.
34 Changes through 1.9.9e are recorded by Zeyd M Ben-Halim.
35 Changes since 1.9.9e are recorded by Thomas E Dickey.
37 Contributors include those who have provided patches (even small ones), as well
38 as those who provide useful information (bug reports, analyses). Changes with
39 no cited author are the work of Thomas E Dickey (TD).
41 A few contributors may be cited in this file by their initials.
42 Each accounts for half of one percent or more of the changes since 1.9.9e.
43 See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names.
45 Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
46 it is not possible to add this information.
49 + modify vt100 rs2 string to reset vt52 mode and scrolling regions
50 (report/analysis by Robert King) -TD
51 + add vt100+4bsd building block, use that for older terminals rather
52 than "vt100" which is now mostly used as a building block for
53 terminal emulators -TD
54 + correct a few spelling errors in terminfo.src comments -TD
56 + fix a typo in ncurses.c test_attr legend (patch by Petr Vanek).
57 + changed internal colorpair_t to a struct, eliminating an internal
59 + add ncurses/new_pair.h
60 + add ncurses/base/new_pair.c with alloc_pair(), find_pair() and
62 + add test/demo_new_pair.c
65 + improve terminfo manual description of terminfo syntax.
66 + clarify the use of wint_t vs wchar_t in curs_get_wstr.3x
67 + improve description of endwin() in manual.
68 + modify setcchar() and getcchar() to treat negative color-pair as an
70 + fix a typo in include/hashed_db.h (Andre Sa).
73 + fixes for CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS (report by Ross Burton).
76 + fix several formatting issues with manual pages.
77 + correct read of terminfo entry in which all strings are absent or
78 explicitly cancelled. Before this fix, the result was that all were
79 treated as only absent.
80 + modify infocmp to suppress mixture of absent/cancelled capabilities
81 that would only show as "NULL, NULL", unless the -q option is used,
82 e.g., to show "-, @" or "@, -".
85 + build-fixes for PGI compilers (report by Adam J. Stewart)
86 + accept whitespace in sed expression for generating expanded.c
87 + modify configure check that g++ compiler warnings are not used.
88 + add configure check for -fPIC option needed for shared libraries.
89 + let configure --disable-ext-funcs override the default for the
90 --enable-sp-funcs option.
91 + mark some structs in form/menu/panel libraries as potentially opaque
92 without modifying API/ABI.
93 + add configure option --enable-opaque-curses for ncurses library and
94 similar options for the other libraries.
97 + trim newlines, tabs and escaped newlines from terminfo "paths" passed
99 + ignore zero-length files in db-iterator; these are useful for
100 instance to suppress "$HOME/.terminfo" when not wanted.
101 + amended "b64:" encoder to work with the terminfo reader.
102 + modify terminfo reader to accept "b64:" format using RFC-3548 in
103 as well as RFC-4648 url/filename-safe format.
104 + modify terminfo reader to accept "hex:" format as generated by
105 "infocmp -0qQ1" (cf: 20150905).
106 + adjust authors comment to reflect drop below 1% for SV.
109 + minor comment-fixes to help automate links to bug-urls -TD
110 + add dvtm, dvtm-256color -TD
111 + add settings corresponding to xterm-keys option to tmux entry to
112 reflect upcoming change to make that option "on" by default
113 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
114 + uncancel Ms in tmux entry (Harry Gindi, Nicholas Marriott).
115 + add dumb-emacs-ansi -TD
118 + improve discussion of early history of tput program.
119 + incorporate A_COLOR mask into COLOR_PAIR(), in case user application
120 provides an out-of-range pair number (report by Elijah Stone).
121 + clarify description in tput manual page regarding support for
122 termcap names (prompted by FreeBSD #214709).
123 + remove a restriction in tput's support for termcap names which
124 omitted capabilities normally not shown in termcap translations
126 + modify configure script for clang as used on FreeBSD, to work around
127 clang's differences in exit codes vs gcc.
130 + improve discussion of early history of tset/reset programs.
131 + clarify in manual pages that the optional verbose option level is
132 available only when ncurses is configured for tracing.
133 + amend change from 20161231 to avoid writing traces to the standard
134 error after initializing the trace feature using the environment
138 + amend changes for tput to reset tty modes to "sane" if the program
139 is run as "reset", like tset. Likewise, ensure that tset sends
140 either reset- or init-strings.
141 + improve manual page descriptions of tput init/reset and tset/reset,
142 to make it easier to see how they are similar and different.
143 + move a static result from key_name() to _nc_globals
144 + modify _nc_get_screensize to allow for use_env() and use_tioctl()
145 state to be per-screen when sp-funcs are configured, better matching
146 the behavior when using the term-driver configuration.
147 + improve cross-references in manual pages for often used functions
148 + move SCREEN field for use_tioctl() data before the ncursesw fields,
149 and limit that to the sp-funcs configuration to improve termlib
150 compatibility (cf: 20120714).
151 + correct order of initialization for traces in use_env() and
152 use_tioctl() versus first trace calls.
155 + fix errata for ncurses-howto (report by Damien Ruscoe).
156 + fix a few places in configure/build scripts where DESTDIR and rpath
157 were combined (report by Thomas Klausner).
158 + merge current st description (report by Harry Gindi) -TD
159 + modify flash capability for linux and wyse entries to put the delay
160 between the reverse/normal escapes rather than after -TD
161 + modify program tabs to pass the actual tty file descriptor to
162 setupterm rather than the standard output, making padding work
164 + explain in clear's manual page that it writes to stdout.
165 + add special case for verbose debugging traces of command-line
166 utilities which write to stderr (cf: 20161126).
167 + remove a trace with literal escapes from skip_DECSCNM(), added in
169 + update config.guess, config.sub from
170 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
173 + correct parmeters for copywin call in _nc_Synchronize_Attributes()
174 (patch by Leon Winter).
175 + improve color-handling section in terminfo manual page (prompted by
176 patch by Mihail Konev).
177 + modify programs clear, tput and tset to pass the actual tty file
178 descriptor to setupterm rather than the standard output, making
182 + add tput-colorcube demo script.
183 + add -r and -s options to tput-initc demo, to match usage in xterm.
184 + flush the standard output in _nc_flush for the case where SP is zero,
185 e.g., when called via putp. This fixes a scenario where "tput flash"
186 did not work after changes in 20130112.
189 + add configure script option --disable-wattr-macros for use in cases
190 where one wants to use the same headers for ncurses5/ncurses6
191 development, by suppressing the wattr* macros which differ due to
192 the introduction of extended colors (prompted by comments in
193 Debian #230990, Redhat #1270534).
194 + add test/tput-initc to demonstrate tput used to initialize palette
196 + modify test/xterm*.dat to use the newer color4/color12 values.
199 + improve discussion of field validation in form_driver.3x manual page.
200 + update curs_trace.3x manual page.
203 + modify linux-16color to not mask dim, standout or reverse with the
205 + add 0.1sec mandatory delay to flash capabilities using the VT100
206 reverse-video control -TD
207 + omit selection of ISO-8859-1 for G0 in enacs capability from linux2.6
208 entry, to avoid conflict with the user-defined mapping. The reset
209 feature will use ISO-8859-1 in any case (Mikulas Patocka).
210 + improve check in tic for delays by also warning about beep/flash
211 when a delay is not embedded, or if those use the VT100 reverse
212 video escape without using a delay.
213 + minor fix for syntax-check of delays from 20161119 changes.
214 + modify trace() to avoid overwriting existing file (report by Maor
218 + add check in tic for some syntax errors of delays, as well as use of
219 proportional delays for non-line capabilities.
220 + document history of the clear program and the E3 extension, prompted
221 by various discussions including
222 http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/87469/clearing-the-old-scrollback-buffer
225 + improve -W option in tic/infocmp:
226 + correct order of size-adjustments in wrapped lines
227 + if -f option splits line, do not further split it with -W
228 + begin a new line when adding "use=" after a wrapped line
231 + fix typo in man/terminfo.tail (Alain Williams).
232 + correct program-name in adacurses6-config.1 manual page.
235 + add new function "unfocus_current_field" (Leon Winter)
238 + modify tset -w (and tput reset) to update the program's copy of the
239 screensize if it was already set in the system, to improve tabstop
240 setting which relies upon knowing the actual screensize.
241 + add functionality of tset -w to tput, like the "-c" feature this is
242 not optional in tput.
243 + add "clear" as a possible link/alias to tput.
244 + improve tput's check for being called as "init" or "reset" to allow
245 for transformed names.
246 + split-out the "clear" function from progs/clear.c, share with
247 tput to get the same behavior, e.g., the E3 extension.
250 + amend internal use of tputs to consistently use the number of lines
251 affected, e.g., for insert/delete character operations. While
252 merging terminfo source early in 1995, several descriptions used the
253 "*" proportional delay for these operations, prompting a change in
255 + regenerate llib-* files.
256 + regenerate HTML manpages.
257 + fix several formatting issues with manual pages.
260 + adjust size in infocmp/tic to work with strlcpy.
261 + fix configure script to record when strlcat is found on OpenBSD.
262 + build-fix for "recent" OpenBSD vs baudrate.
265 + add -W option to tic/infocmp to force long strings to wrap. This is
266 in addition to the -w option which attempts to fit capabilities into
268 + add linux-m1 minitel entries (patch by Alexandre Montaron).
269 + correct rs2 string for vt100-nam -TD
272 + modify _nc_tic_expand to escape comma if it immediately follows a
273 percent sign, to work with minitel change.
274 + updated minitel and viewdata descriptions (Alexandre Montaron).
277 + build-fix for gnat6, which unhelpfully attempts to compile C files.
278 + fix typo in 20160910 changes (Debian #837892, patch by Sven Joachim).
281 + trim dead code ifdef'd with HIDE_EINTR since 970830 (discussion with
283 + trim some obsolete/incorrect wording about EINTR from wgetch manual
284 page (patch by Leon Winter).
285 + really correct 20100515 change (patch by Rich Coe).
286 + add "--enable-string-hacks" option to test/configure
287 + completed string-hacks for "sprintf", etc., including test-programs.
288 + make "--enable-string-hacks" work with Debian by checking for the
289 "bsd" library and its associated "<bsd/string.h>" header.
292 + correct 20100515 change for weak signals versus sigprocmask (report
294 + modify misc/Makefile.in to work around OpenBSD "make" which unlike
295 all other versions of "make" does not recognize continuation lines
297 + amend the last change to CF_C_ENV_FLAGS to move only the
298 preprocessor, optimization and warning flags to CPPFLAGS and CFLAGS,
299 leaving the residue in CC. That happens to work for gcc's various
300 "model" options, but may require tuning for other compilers (report
304 + add "v" menu entry to test/ncurses.c to show baudrate and other
306 + add "newer" baudrate symbols from Linux and FreeBSD to progs/tset.c,
308 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro:
309 + add "uclinux" to case for "linux" (patch by Yann E. Morin)
310 + modify _GNU_SOURCE for cygwin headers, tested with cygwin 2.3, 2.5
311 (patch by Corinna Vinschen, from changes to tin).
312 + improve CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS macro to allow for compiler wrappers such
313 as "ccache" (report by Enrico Scholz).
314 + update config.guess, config.sub from
315 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
318 + update tput manual page to reflect changes to manipulate terminal
319 modes by sharing functions with tset.
320 + add the terminal-mode parts of "reset" (aka tset) to the "tput reset"
321 command, making the two almost the same except for window-size.
322 + adapt logic used in dialog "--keep-tite" option for test/filter.c as
323 "-a" option. When set, test/filter attempts to suppress the
325 + correct a typo in interix entry -TD
328 + add a dependency upon generated-sources in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to
329 handle a case of "configure && make install".
330 + trim trailing blanks from include/Caps*, to work around a problem
331 in sed (Debian #818067).
334 + improve CF_GNU_SOURCE configure macro to optionally define
335 _DEFAULT_SOURCE work around a nuisance in recent glibc releases.
336 + move the terminfo-specific parts of tput's "reset" function into
337 the shared reset_cmd.c, making the two forms of reset use the same
339 + split-out the terminal initialization functions from tset as
340 progs/reset_cmd.c, as part of changes to merge the reset-feature
344 + change tset's initialization to allow it to get settings from the
345 standard input as well as /dev/tty, to be more effective when
346 output or error are redirected.
347 + improve discussion of history and portability for tset/reset/tput
351 + improve error message from tset/reset when both stderr/stdout are
352 redirected to a file or pipe.
353 + improve organization of curs_attr.3x, curs_color.3x
356 + work around Debian's antique/unmaintained version of mawk when
358 + improve test/list_keys.c, showing ncurses's convention of modifiers
359 for special keys, based on xterm.
362 + improve test/list_keys.c, using $TERM if no parameters areg given.
365 + build-fixes for ncurses "test_progs" rule.
366 + amend change to CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS in 20160521 to make multilib build
367 work (report by Sven Joachim).
370 + build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD curses.
371 + improve test/list_keys.c, fixing column-widths and sorting the list
372 to make it more readable.
375 + revise fix for Debian #805618 (report by Vlado Potisk, cf: 20151128).
376 + modify test/ncurses.c a/A screens to make exiting on an escape
377 character depend on the start of keypad and timeout modes, to allow
378 better testing of function-keys.
379 + modify rs1 for xterm-16color, xterm-88color and xterm-256color to
380 reset palette using "oc" string as in linux -TD
381 + use ANSI reply for u8 in xterm-new, to reflect vt220-style responses
382 that could be returned -TD
383 + added a few capabilities fixed in recent vte -TD
386 + correct logic for -f option in test/demo_terminfo.c
387 + add test/list_keys.c
390 + further workaround for PIE/PIC breakage which causes gpm to not link.
391 + fix most cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses library.
394 + improved manual page description of tset/reset versus window-size.
395 + fixes to work with a slightly broken compiler configuration which
396 cannot compile "Hello World!" without adding compiler options
397 (report by Ola x Nilsson):
398 + pass appropriate compiler options to the CF_PROG_CC_C_O macro.
399 + when separating compiler and options in CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS, ensure
400 that all options are split-off into CFLAGS or CPPFLAGS
401 + restore some -I options removed in 20140726 because they appeared
402 to be redundant. In fact, they are needed for a compiler that
403 cannot combine -c and -o options.
406 + regenerate HTML manpages.
407 + improve manual pages for wgetch and wget_wch to point out that they
408 might return values without names in curses.h (Debian #822426).
409 + make linux3.0 entry the default linux entry (Debian #823658) -TD
410 + modify linux2.6 entry to improve line-drawing so that the linux3.0
411 entry can be used in non-UTF-8 mode -TD
412 + document return value of use_extended_names (report by Mike Gran).
415 + amend change to _nc_do_color to restore the early return for the
416 special case used in _nc_screen_wrap (report by Dick Streefland,
418 + modify test/ncurses.c:
419 + check return-value of putwin
420 + correct ifdef which made the 'g' test's legend not reflect changes
421 to keypad- and scroll-modes.
422 + correct return-value of extended putwin (report by Mike Gran).
425 + modify test/ncurses.c 'd' edit-color menu to optionally read xterm
426 color palette directly from terminal, as well as handling KEY_RESIZE
427 and screen-repainting with control/L and control/R.
428 + add 'oc' capability to xterm+256color, allowing palette reset for
432 + add workaround in configure script for inept transition to PIE vs
433 PIC builds documented in
434 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Harden_All_Packages
435 + add "reset" to list of programs whose names might change in manpages
436 due to program-transformation configure options.
437 + drop long-obsolete "-n" option from tset.
440 + modify test/blue.c to use Unicode values for card-glyphs when
441 available, as well as improving the check for CP437 and CP850.
444 + regenerate HTML manpages.
445 + improve manual pages for utilities with respect to POSIX versus
449 + regenerate HTML manpages.
450 + improve test/demo_menus.c, allowing mouse-click on the menu-headers
451 to switch the active menu. This requires a new extension option
452 O_MOUSE_MENU to tell the menu driver to put mouse events which do not
453 apply to the active menu back into the queue so that the application
454 can handle the event.
457 + improve description of tgoto parameters (report by Steffen Nurpmeso).
458 + amend workaround for Solaris line-drawing to restore a special case
459 that maps Unicode line-drawing characters into the acsc string for
460 non-Unicode locales (Debian #816888).
463 + modified test/filter.c to illustrate an alternative to getnstr, that
464 polls for input while updating a clock on the right margin as well
465 as responding to window size-changes.
468 + omit a redefinition of "inline" when traces are enabled, since this
469 does not work with gcc 5.3.x MinGW cross-compiling (cf: 20150912).
472 + modify test/configure script to check for pthread dependency of
473 ncursest or ncursestw library when building ncurses examples, e.g.,
474 in case weak symbols are used.
475 + modify configure macro for shared-library rules to use -Wl,-rpath
476 rather than -rpath to work around a bug in scons (FreeBSD #178732,
478 + double-width multibyte characters were not counted properly in
479 winsnstr and wins_nwstr (report/example by Eric Pruitt).
480 + update config.guess, config.sub from
481 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
484 + amend fix for _nc_ripoffline from 20091031 to make test/ditto.c work
485 in threaded configuration.
486 + move _nc_tracebits, _tracedump and _tracemouse to curses.priv.h,
487 since they are not part of the suggested ABI6.
490 + define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN for MinGW port, making builds faster.
491 + modify test/ditto.c to allow $XTERM_PROG environment variable to
492 override "xterm" as the name of the program to run in the threaded
496 + improve formatting of man/curs_refresh.3x and man/tset.1 manpages
497 + regenerate HTML manpages using newer man2html to eliminate some
498 unwanted blank lines.
501 + ifdef'd header-file definition of mouse_trafo() with NCURSES_NOMACROS
502 (report by Corey Minyard).
503 + fix some strict compiler-warnings in traces.
506 + tidy up comments about hardcoded 256color palette (report by
507 Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
508 + add putty-noapp entry, and amend putty entry to use application mode
509 for better consistency with xterm (report by Leonardo Brondani
511 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to trace wide-characters
512 as a whole rather than their multibyte equivalents.
513 + minor fix in wadd_wchnstr() to ensure that each cell has nonzero
515 + move PUTC_INIT calls next to wcrtomb calls, to avoid carry-over of
516 error status when processing Unicode values which are not mapped.
519 + modify ncurses c/C color test-screens to take advantage of wide
520 screens, reducing the number of lines used for 88- and 256-colors.
521 + minor refinement to check versus ncv to ignore two parameters of
522 SGR 38 and 48 when those come from color-capabilities.
525 + add check in tic for use of bold, etc., video attributes in the
526 color capabilities, accounting whether the feature is listed in ncv.
527 + add check in tic for conflict between ritm, rmso, rmul versus sgr0.
530 + add a paragraph to curs_getch.3x discussing key naming (discussion
532 + amend workaround for Solaris vs line-drawing to take the configure
534 + add a configure check for wcwidth() versus the ncurses line-drawing
535 characters, to use in special-casing systems such as Solaris.
538 + improve CF_XOPEN_CURSES macro used in test/configure, to define as
539 needed NCURSES_WIDECHAR for platforms where _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
540 does not work. Also modified the test program to ensure that if
541 building with ncurses, that the cchar_t type is checked, since that
542 normally is since 20111030 ifdef'd depending on this test.
543 + improve 20121222 workaround for broken acs, letting Solaris "work"
544 in spite of its misconfigured wcwidth which marks all of the line
545 drawing characters as double-width.
548 + update form_cursor.3x, form_post.3x, menu_attributes.3x to list
549 function names in NAME section (patch by Jason McIntyre).
550 + minor fixes to manpage NAME/SYNOPSIS sections to consistently use
551 rule that either all functions which are prototyped in SYNOPSIS are
552 listed in the NAME section, or the manual-page name is the sole item
553 listed in the NAME section. The latter is used to reduce clutter,
554 e.g., for the top-level library manual pages as well as for certain
555 feature-pages such as SP-funcs and threading (prompted by patches by
559 + add option to preserve leading whitespace in form fields (patch by
561 + add missing assignment in lib_getch.c to make notimeout() work
563 + add 't' toggle for notimeout() function in test/ncurses.c a/A screens
564 + add viewdata terminal description (Alexandre Montaron).
565 + fix a case in tic/infocmp for formatting capabilities where a
566 backslash at the end of a string was mishandled.
567 + fix some typos in curs_inopts.3x (Benno Schulenberg).
570 + fix some inconsistencies in the pccon* entries -TD
571 + add bold to pccon+sgr+acs and pccon-base (Tati Chevron).
572 + add keys f12-f124 to pccon+keys (Tati Chevron).
573 + add test/test_sgr.c program to exercise all combinations of sgr.
576 + modify tset's assignment to TERM in its output to reflect the name by
577 which the terminal description is found, rather than the primary
578 name. That was an unnecessary part from the initial conversion of
579 tset from termcap to terminfo. The termcap program in 4.3BSD did
580 this to avoid using the short 2-character name (report by Rich
582 + minor fix to configure script to ensure that rules for resulting.map
583 are only generated when needed (cf: 20151101).
584 + modify configure script to handle the case where tic-library is
585 renamed, but the --with-debug option is used by itself without
586 normal or shared libraries (prompted by comment in Debian #803482).
589 + amend change for pkg-config which allows build of pc-files when no
590 valid pkg-config library directory was configured to suppress the
591 actual install if it is not overridden to a valid directory at
592 install time (cf: 20150822).
593 + modify editing script which generates resulting.map to work with the
594 clang configuration on recent FreeBSD, which gives an error on an
595 empty "local" section.
596 + fix a spurious "(Part)" message in test/ncurses.c b/B tests due
597 to incorrect attribute-masking.
600 + modify MKexpanded.c to update the expansion of a temporary filename
601 to "expanded.c", for use in trace statements.
602 + modify layout of b/B tests in test/ncurses.c to allow for additional
603 annotation on the right margin; some terminals with partial support
604 did not display well.
605 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim).
606 + fix typo in INSTALL (patch by Tomas Cech).
607 + improve configure check for setting WILDCARD_SYMS variable; on ppc64
608 the variable is in the Data section rather than Text (patch by Michel
609 Normand, Novell #946048).
610 + using configure option "--without-fallbacks" incorrectly caused
611 FALLBACK_LIST to be set to "no" (patch by Tomas Cech).
612 + updated minitel entries to fix kel problem with emacs, and add
613 minitel1b-nb (Alexandre Montaron).
614 + reviewed/updated nsterm entry Terminal.app in OSX -TD
615 + replace some dead URLs in comments with equivalents from the
617 + update config.guess, config.sub from
618 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
621 + modify ncurses/Makefile.in to sort keys.list in POSIX locale
622 (Debian #801864, patch by Esa Peuha).
623 + remove an early-return from _nc_do_color, which can interfere with
624 data needed by bkgd when ncurses is configured with extended colors
625 (patch by Denis Tikhomirov).
626 > fixes for OS/2 (patches by KO Myung-Hun)
627 + use button instead of kbuf[0] in EMX-specific part of lib_mouse.c
628 + support building with libtool on OS/2
629 + use stdc++ on OS/2 kLIBC
630 + clear cf_XOPEN_SOURCE on OS/2
633 + add configure check for openpty to test/configure script, for ditto.
634 + minor fixes to test/view.c in investigating Debian #790847.
635 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20150926, incorporates a fix for Cdk.
636 + add workaround for breakage of POSIX makefiles by recent binutils
638 + improve check for working poll() by using posix_openpt() as a
639 fallback in case there is no valid terminal on the standard input
640 (prompted by discussion on bug-ncurses mailing list, Debian #676461).
643 + change makefile rule for removing resulting.map to distclean rather
645 + add /lib/terminfo to terminfo-dirs in ".deb" test-package.
646 + add note on portability of resizeterm and wresize to manual pages.
649 + clarify in resizeterm.3x how KEY_RESIZE is pushed onto the input
651 + clarify in curs_getch.3x that the keypad mode affects ability to
652 read KEY_MOUSE codes, but does not affect KEY_RESIZE.
653 + add overlooked build-fix needed with Cygwin for separate Ada95
654 configure script, cf: 20150606 (report by Nicolas Boulenguez)
657 + fixes for configure/build using clang on OSX (prompted by report by
659 + do not redefine "inline" in ncurses_cfg.h; this was originally to
660 solve a problem with gcc/g++, but is aggravated by clang's misuse
661 of symbols to pretend it is gcc.
662 + add braces to configure script to prevent unwanted add of
663 "-lstdc++" to the CXXLIBS symbol.
664 + improve/update test-program used for checking existence of stdc++
666 + if $CXXLIBS is set, the linkage test uses that in addition to $LIBS
669 + add note in curs_addch.3x about line-drawing when it depends upon
671 + add tic -q option for consistency with infocmp, use it to suppress
672 all comments from the "tic -I" output.
673 + modify infocmp -q option to suppress the "Reconstructed from"
675 + add infocmp/tic -Q option, which allows one to dump the compiled
676 form of the terminal entry, in hexadecimal or base64.
679 + sort options in usage message for infocmp, to make it simpler to
681 + update usage message for tic, adding "-0" option.
682 + documented differences in ESCDELAY versus AIX's implementation.
683 + fix some compiler warnings from ports.
684 + modify --with-pkg-config-libdir option to make it possible to install
685 ".pc" files even if pkg-config is not found (adapted from patch by
689 + disallow "no" as a possible value for "--with-shlib-version" option,
690 overlooked in cleanup-changes for 20000708 (report by Tommy Alex).
691 + update release notes in INSTALL.
692 + regenerate llib-* files to help with review for release notes.
695 + workaround for Debian #65617, which was fixed in mawk's upstream
696 releases in 2009 (report by Sven Joachim). See
697 http://invisible-island.net/mawk/CHANGES.html#t20090727
699 20150808 6.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
702 + build-fix for Ada95 on older platforms without stdint.h
703 + build-fix for Solaris, whose /bin/sh and /usr/bin/sed are non-POSIX.
704 + update release announcement, summarizing more than 800 changes across
705 more than 200 snapshots.
706 + minor fixes to manpages, etc., to simplify linking from announcement
710 + updated llib-* files.
711 + build-fixes for ncurses library "test_progs" rule.
712 + use alternate workaround for gcc 5.x feature (adapted from patch by
714 + add status line to tmux via xterm+sl (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
715 + fixes for st 0.5 from testing with tack -TD
716 + review/improve several manual pages to break up wall-of-text:
717 curs_add_wch.3x, curs_attr.3x, curs_bkgd.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x,
718 curs_getcchar.3x, curs_getch.3x, curs_kernel.3x, curs_mouse.3x,
719 curs_outopts.3x, curs_overlay.3x, curs_pad.3x, curs_termattrs.3x
720 curs_trace.3x, and curs_window.3x
723 + correct an old logic error for %A and %O in tparm (report by "zreed").
724 + improve documentation for signal handlers by adding section in the
725 curs_initscr.3x page.
726 + modify logic in make_keys.c to not assume anything about the size
727 of strnames and strfnames variables, since those may be functions
728 in the thread- or broken-linker configurations (problem found by
730 + modify test/configure script to check for pthreads configuration,
731 e.g., ncursestw library.
734 + modify scripts to build/use test-packages for the pthreads
735 configuration of ncurses6.
736 + add references to ttytype and termcap symbols in demo_terminfo.c and
737 demo_termcap.c to ensure that when building ncursest.map, etc., that
738 the corresponding names such as _nc_ttytype are added to the list of
739 versioned symbols (report by Werner Fink)
740 + fix regression from 20150704 (report/patch by Werner Fink).
743 + fix a few problems reported by Coverity.
744 + fix comparison against "/usr/include" in misc/gen-pkgconfig.in
745 (report by Daiki Ueno, Debian #790548, cf: 20141213).
748 + modify configure script to remove deprecated ABI 5 symbols when
750 + add symbols _nc_Default_Field, _nc_Default_Form, _nc_has_mouse to
751 map-files, but marked as deprecated so that they can easily be
752 suppressed from ABI 6 builds (Debian #788610).
753 + comment-out "screen.xterm" entry, and inherit screen.xterm-256color
754 from xterm-new (report by Richard Birkett) -TD
755 + modify read_entry.c to set the error-return to -1 if no terminal
756 databases were found, as documented for setupterm.
757 + add test_setupterm.c to demonstrate normal/error returns from the
758 setupterm and restartterm functions.
759 + amend cleanup change from 20110813 which removed redundant definition
760 of ret_error, etc., from tinfo_driver.c, to account for the fact that
761 it should return a bool rather than int (report/analysis by Johannes
765 + fix overflow warning for OSX with lib_baudrate.c (cf: 20010630).
766 + modify script used to generate map/sym files to mark 5.9.20150530 as
767 the last "5.9" version, and regenerated the files. That makes the
768 files not use ".current" for the post-5.9 symbols. This also
769 corrects the label for _nc_sigprocmask used in when weak symbols are
770 configured for the ncursest/ncursestw libraries (prompted by
771 discussion with Sven Joachim).
772 + fix typo in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim).
775 + make ABI 6 the default by updates to dist.mk and VERSION, with the
776 intention that the existing ABI 5 should build as before using the
777 "--with-abi-version=5" option.
778 + regenerate ada- and man-html documentation.
779 + minor fixes to color- and util-manpages.
780 + fix a regression in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, to handle special case of
781 Cygwin, which uses the broken-linker feature.
782 + amend fix for CF_NCURSES_CONFIG used in test/configure to assume that
783 ncurses package scripts work when present for cross-compiling, as the
784 lessor of two evils (cf: 20150530).
785 + add check in configure script to disallow conflicting options
786 "--with-termlib" and "--enable-term-driver".
787 + move defaults for "--disable-lp64" and "--with-versioned-syms" into
788 CF_ABI_DEFAULTS macro.
791 + change private type for Event_Mask in Ada95 binding to work when
792 mmask_t is set to 32-bits.
793 + remove spurious "%;" from st entry (report by Daniel Pitts) -TD
794 + add vte-2014, update vte to use that -TD
795 + modify tic and infocmp to "move" a diagnostic for tparm strings that
796 have a syntax error to tic's "-c" option (report by Daniel Pitts).
797 + fix two problems with configure script macros (Debian #786436,
798 cf: 20150425, cf: 20100529).
801 + add 'P' menu item to test/ncurses.c, to show pad in color.
802 + improve discussion in curs_color.3x about color rendering (prompted
803 by comment on Stack Overflow forum):
804 + remove screen-bce.mlterm, since mlterm does not do "bce" -TD
805 + add several screen.XXX entries to support the respective variations
807 + add putty+fnkeys* building-block entries -TD
808 + add smkx/rmkx to capabilities analyzed with infocmp "-i" option.
811 + amend change to ".pc" files to only use the extra loader flags which
812 may have rpath options (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20150502).
813 + change versioning for dpkg's in test-packages for Ada95 and
814 ncurses-examples for consistency with Debian, to work with package
816 + regenerate html manpages.
817 + clarify handling of carriage return in waddch manual page; it was
818 discussed only in the portability section (prompted by comment on
819 Stack Overflow forum):
822 + add test-packages for cross-compiling ncurses-examples using the
823 MinGW test-packages. These are only the Debian packages; RPM later.
824 + cleanup format of debian/copyright files
825 + add pc-files to the MinGW cross-compiling test-packages.
826 + correct a couple of places in gen-pkgconfig.in to handle renaming of
830 + modify the configure script to allow different default values
831 for ABI 5 versus ABI 6.
832 + add wgetch-events to test-packages.
833 + add a note on how to build ncurses-examples to test/README.
834 + fix a memory leak in delscreen (report by Daniel Kahn Gillmor,
836 + remove unnecessary ';' from E3 capabilities -TD
837 + add tmux entry, derived from screen (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
838 + split-out recent change to nsterm-bce as nsterm-build326, and add
839 nsterm-build342 to reflect changes with successive releases of OSX
840 (discussion with Leonardo B Schenkel)
841 + add xon, ich1, il1 to ibm3161 (patch by Stephen Powell, Debian
843 + add sample "magic" file, to document ext-putwin.
844 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to add explicit -ltinfo, etc., to the
845 generated ".pc" file when ld option "--as-needed" is used, or when
846 ncurses and tinfo are installed without using rpath (prompted by
847 discussion with Sylvain Bertrand).
848 + modify test-package for ncurses6 to omit rpath feature when installed
850 + add OSX's "*.dSYM" to clean-rules in makefiles.
851 + make extra-suffix work for OSX configuration, e.g., for shared
853 + modify Ada95/configure script to work with pkg-config
854 + move test-package for ncurses6 to /usr, since filename-conflicts have
856 + corrected build rules for Ada95/gen/generate; it does not depend on
857 the ncurses library aside from headers.
858 + reviewed man pages, fixed a few other spelling errors.
859 + fix a typo in curs_util.3x (Sven Joachim).
860 + use extra-suffix in some overlooked shared library dependencies
861 found by 20150425 changes for test-packages.
862 + update config.guess, config.sub from
863 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
866 + expanded description of tgetstr's area pointer in manual page
867 (report by Todd M Lewis).
868 + in-progress changes to modify test-packages to use ncursesw6 rather
869 than ncursesw, with updated configure scripts.
870 + modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG in Ada95- and test-configure scripts to
871 check for ".pc" files via pkg-config, but add a linkage check since
872 frequently pkg-config configurations are broken.
873 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to include EXTRA_LDFLAGS, e.g., for the
875 + add 'dim' capability to screen entry (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
876 + add several key definitions to nsterm-bce to match preconfigured
877 keys, e.g., with OSX 10.9 and 10.10 (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
878 + fix repeated "extra-suffix" in ncurses-config.in (cf: 20150418).
879 + improve term_variables manual page, adding section on the terminfo
880 long-name symbols which are defined in the term.h header.
881 + fix bug in lib_tracebits.c introduced in const-fixes (cf: 20150404).
884 + avoid a blank line in output from tabs program by ending it with
885 a carriage return as done in FreeBSD (patch by James Clarke).
886 + build-fix for the "--enable-ext-putwin" feature when not using
887 wide characters (report by Werner Fink).
888 + modify autoconf macros to use scripting improvement from xterm.
889 + add -brtl option to compiler options on AIX 5-7, needed to link
890 with the shared libraries.
891 + add --with-extra-suffix option to help with installing nonconflicting
892 ncurses6 packages, e.g., avoiding header- and library-conflicts.
893 NOTE: as a side-effect, this renames
894 adacurses-config to adacurses5-config and
895 adacursesw-config to adacursesw5-config
896 + modify debian/rules test package to suffix programs with "6".
897 + clarify in curs_inopts.3x that window-specific settings do not
898 inherit into new windows.
901 + improve description of start_color() in the manual.
902 + modify several files in ncurses- and progs-directories to allow
903 const data used in internal tables to be put by the linker into the
904 readonly text segment.
907 + correct cut/paste error for "--enable-ext-putwin" that made it the
908 same as "--enable-ext-colors" (report by Roumen Petrov)
911 + add "-f" option to test/savescreen.c to help with testing/debugging
912 the extended putwin/getwin.
913 + add logic for writing/reading combining characters in the extended
915 + add "--enable-ext-putwin" configure option to turn on the extended
919 + in-progress changes to provide an extended version of putwin and
920 getwin which will be capable of reading screen-dumps between the
921 wide/normal ncurses configurations. These are text files, except
922 for a magic code at the beginning:
923 0 string \210\210 Screen-dump (ncurses)
926 + document limitations of getwin in manual page (prompted by discussion
928 + extend test/savescreen.c to demonstrate that color pair values
929 and graphic characters can be restored using getwin.
932 + modify win_driver.c to eliminate the constructor, to make it more
933 usable in an application which may/may not need the console window
934 (report by Grady Martin).
937 + capture define's related to -D_XOPEN_SOURCE from the configure check
938 and add those to the *-config and *.pc files, to simplify use for
939 the wide-character libraries.
940 + modify ncurses.spec to accommodate Fedora21's location of pkg-config
942 + correct sense of "--disable-lib-suffixes" configure option (report
943 by Nicolas Boos, cf: 20140426).
946 + regenerate html manpages using improved man2html from work on xterm.
947 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, accounting
948 for the "--enable-weak-symbols" configure option (report by Werner
952 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, showing
953 the combinations of configure options used at each stage.
956 + add configure check to determine if "local: _*;" can be used in the
957 ".map" files to selectively omit symbols beginning with "_". On at
958 least recent FreeBSD, the wildcard applies to all "_" symbols.
959 + remove obsolete/conflicting rule for ncurses.map from
960 ncurses/Makefile.in (cf: 20130706).
963 + improve description in INSTALL of the --with-versioned-syms option.
964 + add combination of --with-hashed-db and --with-ticlib to
965 configurations for ".map" files (report by Werner Fink).
968 + add a step to generating ".map" files, to declare any remaining
969 symbols beginning with "_" as local, at the last version node.
970 + improve configure checks for pkg-config, addressing a variant found
972 + modify win_driver.c to provide characters for special keys, like
973 ansi.sys, when keypad mode is off, rather than returning nothing at
974 all (discussion with Eli Zaretskii).
975 + add "broken_linker" and "hashed-db" configure options to combinations
976 use for generating the ".map" and ".sym" files.
977 + avoid using "ld" directly when creating shared library, to simplify
978 cross-compiles. Also drop "-Bsharable" option from shared-library
979 rules for FreeBSD and DragonFly (FreeBSD #196592).
980 + fix a memory leak in form library Free_RegularExpression_Type()
981 (report by Pavel Balaev).
984 + modify_nc_flush() to retry if interrupted (patch by Stian Skjelstad).
985 + change map files to make _nc_freeall a global, since it may be used
986 via the Ada95 binding when checking for memory leaks.
987 + improve sed script used in 20141220 to account for wide-, threaded-
991 + regenerate ".map" files, using step overlooked in 20141213 to use
992 the same patch-dates across each file to match ncurses.map (report by
996 + fix an incorrect variable assignment in 20141220 changes (report by
1000 + updated Ada95/configure with macro changes from 20141213
1001 + tie configure options --with-abi-version and --with-versioned-syms
1002 together, so that ABI 6 libraries have distinct symbol versions from
1003 the ABI 5 libraries.
1004 + replace obsolete/nonworking link to man2html with current one,
1005 regenerate html-manpages.
1008 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to add -I option for include-directory
1009 when using both --prefix and --disable-overwrite (report by Misty
1011 + add configure option --with-pc-suffix to allow minor renaming of
1012 ".pc" files and the corresponding library. Use this in the test
1013 package for ncurses6.
1014 + modify configure script so that if pkg-config is not installed, it
1015 is still possible to install ".pc" files (report by Misty De Meo).
1016 + updated ".sym" files, removing symbols which are marked as "local"
1017 in the corresponding ".map" files.
1018 + updated ".map" files to reflect move of comp_captab and comp_hash
1019 from tic-library to tinfo-library in 20090711 (report by Sven
1023 + updated ".map" files so that each symbol that may be shared across
1024 the different library configurations has the same label. Some
1025 review is needed to ensure these are really compatible.
1026 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to work around change in development version of
1027 gcc introduced here:
1028 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-06/msg02185.html
1029 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-07/msg00236.html
1030 (reports by Marcus Shawcroft, Maohui Lei).
1031 + improved configure macro CF_SUBDIR_PATH, from lynx changes.
1034 + improved ".map" files by generating them with a script that builds
1035 ncurses with several related configurations and merges the results.
1036 A further refinement is planned, to make the tic- and tinfo-library
1037 symbols use the same versions across each of the four configurations
1038 which are represented (reports by Sven Joachim, Werner Fink).
1041 + improve description of limits for color values and color pairs in
1042 curs_color.3x (prompted by patch by Tim van der Molen).
1043 + add VERSION file, using first field in that to record the ABI version
1044 used for configure --with-libtool --disable-libtool-version
1045 + add configure options for applying the ".map" and ".sym" files to
1046 the ncurses, form, menu and panel libraries.
1047 + add ".map" and ".sym" files to show exported symbols, e.g., for
1051 + improve strict compiler-warnings by adding a cast in TRACE_RETURN
1052 and making a new TRACE_RETURN1 macro for cases where the cast does
1056 + in-progress changes to integrate the win32 console driver with the
1057 msys2 configuration.
1060 + reviewed terminology 0.6.1, add function key definitions. None of
1061 the vt100-compatibility issues were improved -TD
1062 + improve infocmp conversion of extended capabilities to termcap by
1063 correcting the limit check against parametrized[], as well as filling
1064 in a check if the string happens to have parameters, e.g., "xm"
1066 + add check for zero/negative dimensions for resizeterm and resize_term
1067 (report by Mike Gran).
1070 + add experimental support for xterm's 1005 mouse mode, to use in a
1071 demonstration of its limitations.
1072 + add experimental support for "%u" format to terminfo.
1073 + modify test/ncurses.c to also show position reports in 'a' test.
1074 + minor formatting fixes to _nc_trace_mmask_t, make this function
1075 exported to help with debugging mouse changes.
1076 + improve behavior of wheel-mice for xterm protocol, noting that there
1077 are only button-presses for buttons "4" and "5", so there is no need
1078 to wait to combine events into double-clicks (report/analysis by
1080 + provide examples xterm-1005 and xterm-1006 terminfo entries -TD
1081 + implement decoder for xterm SGR 1006 mouse mode.
1084 + implement curs_set in win_driver.c
1085 + implement flash in win_driver.c
1086 + fix an infinite loop in win_driver.c if the command-window loses
1088 + improve the non-buffered mode, i.e., NCURSES_CONSOLE2, of
1089 win_driver.c by temporarily changing the buffer-size to match the
1090 window-size to eliminate the scrollback. Also enforce a minimum
1091 screen-size of 24x80 in the non-buffered mode.
1092 + modify generated misc/Makefile to suppress install.data from the
1093 dependencies if the --disable-db-install option is used, compensating
1094 for the top-level makefile changes used to add ncurses*-config in the
1095 20140920 changes (report by Steven Honeyman).
1098 + add ncurses*-config to bin-directory of sample package-scripts.
1099 + add check to ensure that getopt is available; this is a problem in
1100 some older cross-compiler environments.
1101 + expanded on the description of --disable-overwrite in INSTALL
1102 (prompted by reports by Joakim Tjernlund, Thomas Klausner).
1103 See Gentoo #522586 and NetBSD #49200 for examples.
1104 which relates to the clarified guidelines.
1105 + remove special logic from CF_INCLUDE_DIRS which adds the directory
1106 for the --includedir from the build (report by Joakim Tjernlund).
1107 + add case for Unixware to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, from lynx changes.
1108 + update config.sub from
1109 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1112 + add a configure check to ignore some of the plethora of non-working
1113 C++ cross-compilers.
1114 + build-fixes for Ada95 with gnat 4.9
1117 + build-fix and other improvements for port of ncurses-examples to
1119 + minor compiler-warning fixes.
1122 + modify test/demo_termcap.c and test/demo_terminfo.c to make their
1123 options more directly comparable, and add "-i" option to specify
1124 a terminal description filename to parse for names to lookup.
1127 + fix special case where double-width character overwrites a single-
1128 width character in the first column (report by Egmont Koblinger,
1132 + fix colors in ncurses 'b' test which did not work after changing
1133 it to put the test-strings in subwindows (cf: 20140705).
1134 + merge redundant SEE-ALSO sections in form and menu manpages.
1137 + modify declarations for user-data pointers in C++ binding to use
1138 reinterpret_cast to facilitate converting typed pointers to void*
1139 in user's application (patch by Adam Jiang).
1140 + regenerated html manpages.
1141 + add note regarding cause and effect for TERM in ncurses manpage,
1142 having noted clueless verbiage in Terminal.app's "help" file
1143 which reverses cause/effect.
1144 + remove special fallback definition for NCURSES_ATTR_T, since macros
1145 have resolved type-mismatches using casts (cf: 970412).
1146 + fixes for win_driver.c:
1147 + handle repainting on endwin/refresh combination.
1152 + minor portability fixes for MinGW:
1153 + ensure WINVER is defined in makefiles rather than using headers
1154 + add check for gnatprep "-T" option
1155 + work around bug introduced by gcc 4.8.1 in MinGW which breaks
1157 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20877689/gcc-4-8-1-minggw-d-option-does-not-work-as-usual
1158 + fix most compiler warnings for Cygwin ncurses-examples.
1159 + restore "redundant" -I options in test/Makefile.in, since they are
1160 typically needed when building the derived ncurses-examples package
1164 + eliminate some redundant -I options used for building libraries, and
1165 ensure that ${srcdir} is added to the include-options (prompted by
1166 discussion with Paul Gilmartin).
1167 + modify configure script to work with Minix3.2
1168 + add form library extension O_DYNAMIC_JUSTIFY option which can be
1169 used to override the different treatment of justification for static
1170 versus dynamic fields (adapted from patch by Leon Winter).
1171 + add a null pointer check in test/edit_field.c (report/analysis by
1172 Leon Winter, cf: 20130608).
1175 + make workarounds for compiling test-programs with NetBSD curses.
1176 + improve configure macro CF_ADD_LIBS, to eliminate repeated -l/-L
1177 options, from xterm changes.
1180 + correct Charable() macro check for A_ALTCHARSET in wide-characters.
1181 + build-fix for position-debug code in tty_update.c, to work with or
1185 + add w/W toggle to ncurses.c 'B' test, to demonstrate permutation of
1186 video-attributes and colors with double-width character strings.
1189 + correct check in win_driver.c for saving screen contents, e.g., when
1190 NCURSES_CONSOLE2 is set (cf: 20140503).
1191 + reorganize b/B menu items in ncurses.c, putting the test-strings into
1192 subwindows. This is needed for a planned change to use Unicode
1193 fullwidth characters in the test-screens.
1194 + correct update to form status for _NEWTOP, broken by fixes for
1195 compiler warnings (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20120616).
1198 + change shared-library suffix for AIX 5 and 6 to ".so", avoiding
1199 conflict with the static library (report by Ben Lentz).
1200 + document RPATH_LIST in INSTALLATION file, as part of workarounds for
1201 upgrading an ncurses library using the "--with-shared" option.
1202 + modify test/ncurses.c c/C tests to cycle through subsets of the
1203 total number of colors, to better illustrate 8/16/88/256-colors by
1204 providing directly comparable screens.
1205 + add test/dots_curses.c, for comparison with the low-level examples.
1208 + fix dereference before null check found by Coverity in tic.c
1210 + fix sign-extension bug in read_entry.c which prevented "toe" from
1211 reading empty "screen+italics" entry.
1212 + modify sgr for screen.xterm-new to support dim capability -TD
1213 + add dim capability to nsterm+7 -TD
1214 + cancel dim capability for iterm -TD
1215 + add dim, invis capabilities to vte-2012 -TD
1216 + add sitm/ritm to konsole-base and mlterm3 -TD
1219 > fix regression in screen terminfo entries (reports by Christian
1220 Ebert, Gabriele Balducci) -TD
1221 + revert the change to screen; see notes for why this did not work -TD
1222 + cancel sitm/ritm for entries which extend "screen", to work around
1223 screen's hardcoded behavior for SGR 3 -TD
1226 + separate masking for sgr in vidputs from sitm/ritm, which do not
1227 overlap with sgr functionality.
1228 + remove unneeded -i option from adacurses-config; put -a in the -I
1229 option for consistency (patch by Pascal Pignard).
1230 + update xterm-new terminfo entry to xterm patch #305 -TD
1231 + change format of test-scripts for Debian Ada95 and ncurses-examples
1232 packages to quilted to work around Debian #700177 (cf: 20130907).
1233 + build fix for form_driver_w.c as part of ncurses-examples package for
1234 older ncurses than 20131207.
1235 + add Hello World example to adacurses-config manpage.
1236 + remove unused --enable-pc-files option from Ada95/configure.
1237 + add --disable-gnat-projects option for testing.
1238 + revert changes to Ada95 project-files configuration (cf: 20140524).
1239 + corrected usage message in adacurses-config.
1242 + fix typo in ncurses manpage for the NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE
1243 environment variable.
1244 + improve discussion of input-echoing in curs_getch.3x
1245 + clarify discussion in curs_addch.3x of wrapping.
1246 + modify parametrized.h to make fln non-padded.
1247 + correct several entries which had termcap-style padding used in
1248 terminfo: adm21, aj510, alto-h19, att605-pc, x820 -TD
1249 + correct syntax for padding in some entries: dg211, h19 -TD
1250 + correct ti924-8 which had confused padding versus octal escapes -TD
1251 + correct padding in sbi entry -TD
1252 + fix an old bug in the termcap emulation; "%i" was ignored in tparm()
1253 because the parameters to be incremented were already on the internal
1254 stack (report by Corinna Vinschen).
1255 + modify tic's "-c" option to take into account the "-C" option to
1256 activate additional checks which compare the results from running
1257 tparm() on the terminfo expressions versus the translated termcap
1259 + modify tic to allow it to read from FIFOs (report by Matthieu Fronton,
1261 > patches by Nicolas Boulenguez:
1262 + explicit dereferences to suppress some style warnings.
1263 + when c_varargs_to_ada.c includes its header, use double quotes
1265 + samples/ncurses2-util.adb: removed unused with clause. The warning
1266 was removed by an obsolete pragma.
1267 + replaced Unreferenced pragmas with Warnings (Off). The latter,
1268 available with older GNATs, needs no configure test. This also
1269 replaces 3 untested Unreferenced pragmas.
1270 + simplified To_C usage in trace handling. Using two parameters allows
1271 some basic formatting, and avoids a warning about security with some
1273 + for generated Ada sources, replace many snippets with one pure
1275 + removed C_Chtype and its conversions.
1276 + removed C_AttrType and its conversions.
1277 + removed conversions between int, Item_Option_Set, Menu_Option_Set.
1278 + removed int, Field_Option_Set, Item_Option_Set conversions.
1279 + removed C_TraceType, Attribute_Option_Set conversions.
1280 + replaced C.int with direct use of Eti_Error, now enumerated. As it
1281 was used in a case statement, values were tested by the Ada compiler
1282 to be consecutive anyway.
1283 + src/Makefile.in: remove duplicate stanza
1284 + only consider using a project for shared libraries.
1285 + style. Silent gnat-4.9 warning about misplaced "then".
1286 + generate shared library project to honor ADAFLAGS, LDFLAGS.
1289 + cleanup recently introduced compiler warnings for MingW port.
1290 + workaround for ${MAKEFLAGS} configure check versus GNU make 4.0,
1291 which introduces more than one gratuitous incompatibility.
1294 + add vt520ansi terminfo entry (patch by Mike Gran)
1295 + further improve MinGW support for the scenario where there is an
1296 ANSI-escapes handler such as ansicon running in the console window
1297 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
1300 + add --disable-lib-suffixes option (adapted from patch by Juergen
1302 + merge some changes from Juergen Pfeifer's work with MSYS2, to
1303 simplify later merging:
1304 + use NC_ISATTY() macro for isatty() in library
1305 + add _nc_mingw_isatty() and related functions to windows-driver
1306 + rename terminal driver entrypoints to simplify grep's
1307 + remove a check in the sp-funcs flavor of newterm() which allowed only
1308 the first call to newterm() to succeed (report by Thomas Beierlein,
1312 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1313 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1316 + modify configure script:
1317 + drop the -no-gcc option from Intel compiler, from lynx changes.
1318 + extend the --with-hashed-db configure option to simplify building
1319 with different versions of Berkeley database using FreeBSD ports.
1320 + improve initialization for MinGW port (Juergen Pfeifer):
1321 + enforce Windows-style path-separator if cross-compiling,
1322 + add a driver-name method to each of the drivers,
1323 + allow the Windows driver name to match "unknown", ignoring case,
1324 + lengthen the built-in name for the Windows console driver to
1325 "#win32console", and
1326 + move the comparison of driver-names allowing abbreviation, e.g.,
1327 to "#win32con" into the Windows console driver.
1330 + add check in tic for mismatch between ccc and initp/initc
1331 + cancel ccc in putty-256color and konsole-256color for consistency
1332 with the cancelled initc capability (patch by Sven Zuhlsdorf).
1333 + add xterm+256setaf building block for various terminals which only
1334 get the 256-color feature half-implemented -TD
1335 + updated "st" entry (leaving the 0.1.1 version as "simpleterm") to
1339 + fix typo in "mlterm" entry (report by Gabriele Balducci) -TD
1342 + use types from <stdint.h> in sample build-scripts for chtype, etc.
1343 + modify configure script and curses.h.in to allow the types specified
1344 using --with-chtype and related options to be defined in <stdint.h>
1345 + add terminology entry -TD
1346 + add mlterm3 entry, use that as "mlterm" -TD
1347 + inherit mlterm-256color from mlterm -TD
1350 + modify _nc_New_TopRow_and_CurrentItem() to ensure that the menu's
1351 top-row is adjusted as needed to ensure that the current item is
1352 on the screen (patch by Johann Klammer).
1353 + add wgetdelay() to retrieve _delay member of WINDOW if it happens to
1354 be opaque, e.g., in the pthread configuration (prompted by patch by
1358 + modify ifdef in read_entry.c to handle the case where
1359 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE is not defined (patch by Xin Li).
1360 + add cast in form_driver_w() to fix ARM build (patch by Xin Li).
1361 + add logic to win_driver.c to save/restore screen contents when not
1362 allocating a console-buffer (cf: 20140215).
1365 + clarify error-returns from newwin (report by Ruslan Nabioullin).
1368 + fix some compiler warnings in win_driver.c
1369 + updated notes for wsvt25 based on tack and vttest -TD
1370 + add teken entry to show actual properties of FreeBSD's "xterm"
1374 + in-progress changes to win_driver.c to implement output without
1375 allocating a console-buffer. This uses a pre-existing environment
1376 variable NCGDB used by Juergen Pfeifer for debugging (prompted by
1377 discussion with Erwin Waterlander regarding Console2, which hangs
1378 when reading in an allocated console-buffer).
1379 + add -t option to gdc.c, and modify to accept "S" to step through the
1381 + regenerate NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html to fix some of the broken
1382 html emitted by docbook.
1385 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to omit followup check to determine if
1386 _XOPEN_SOURCE can/should be defined. g++ 4.7.2 built on Solaris 10
1387 has some header breakage due to its own predefinition of this symbol
1388 (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15796).
1391 + add/use symbol NCURSES_PAIRS_T like NCURSES_COLOR_T, to illustrate
1392 which "short" types are for color pairs and which are color values.
1393 + fix build for s390x, by correcting field bit offsets in generated
1394 representation clauses when int=32 long=64 and endian=big, or at
1395 least on s390x (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1396 + minor cleanup change to test/form_driver_w.c (patch by Gaute Hope).
1399 + remove unnecessary ifdef's in Ada95/gen/gen.c, which reportedly do
1400 not work as is with gcc 4.8 due to fixes using chtype cast made for
1401 new compiler warnings by gcc 4.8 in 20130824 (Debian #735753, patch
1402 by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1405 + apply includesubdir variable which was introduced in 20130805 to
1406 gen-pkgconfig.in (Debian #735782).
1409 + further improved man2html, used this to fix broken links in html
1411 ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/man2html
1414 + modify configure-script/ifdef's to allow OLD_TTY feature to be
1415 suppressed if the type of ospeed is configured using the option
1416 --with-ospeed to not be a short. By default, it is a short for
1417 termcap-compatibility (adapted from suggestion by Christian
1419 + correct a typo in _nc_baudrate() (patch by Christian Weisgerber,
1421 + fix a few -Wlogical-op warnings.
1422 + updated llib-l* files.
1425 + add form_driver_w() entrypoint to wide-character forms library, as
1426 well as test program form_driver_w (adapted from patch by Gaute
1430 + minor fix for CF_GCC_WARNINGS to special-case options which are not
1431 recognized by clang.
1434 + add special case to configure script to move _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
1435 definition from CPPFLAGS to CFLAGS if it happens to be needed for
1436 Solaris, because g++ errors with that definition (report by
1437 Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15268).
1438 + correct logic in infocmp's -i option which was intended to ignore
1439 strings which correspond to function-keys as candidates for piecing
1440 together initialization- or reset-strings. The problem dates to
1441 1.9.7a, but was overlooked until changes in -Wlogical-op warnings for
1442 gcc 4.8 (report by David Binderman).
1443 + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, moving
1444 checks for -Wextra and -Wdeclaration-after-statement into the macro,
1445 and adding checks for -Wignored-qualifiers, -Wlogical-op and
1447 + updated CF_CURSES_UNCTRL_H and CF_SHARED_OPTS macros from ongoing
1449 + update config.sub from
1450 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1453 + minor cleanup of terminfo.tail
1456 + use TS extension to describe xterm's title-escapes -TD
1457 + modify terminator and nsterm-s to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD
1458 + update hurd.ti, add xenl to reflect 2011-03-06 change in
1459 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git/log/console/display.c
1461 + simplify pfkey expression in ansi.sys -TD
1464 + correct/simplify ifdef's for cur_term versus broken-linker and
1465 reentrant options (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, cf: 20090530).
1466 + modify release/version combinations in test build-scripts to make
1467 them more consistent with other packages.
1470 + add nc_mingw.h to installed headers for MinGW port; needed for
1471 compiling ncurses-examples.
1472 + add rpm-script for testing cross-compile of ncurses-examples.
1475 + fix new typo in CF_ADA_INCLUDE_DIRS macro (report by Roumen Petrov).
1478 + fix a few compiler warnings in progs and test.
1479 + minor fix to package/debian-mingw/rules, do not strip dll's.
1480 + minor fixes to configure script for empty $prefix, e.g., when doing
1481 cross-compiles to MinGW.
1482 + add script for building test-packages of binaries cross-compiled to
1486 + minor fixes for ncurses-example package and makefile.
1487 + add scripts for test-builds of cross-compiler packages for ncurses6
1491 + some build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD-6.0 curses, though
1492 it lacks some common functions such as use_env() which is not yet
1494 + build-fix and some compiler warning fixes for ncurses-examples with
1496 + fix a possible null-pointer reference in a trace message from newterm.
1497 + quiet a few warnings from NetBSD 6.0 namespace pollution by
1498 nonstandard popcount() function in standard strings.h header.
1499 + ignore g++ 4.2.1 warnings for "-Weffc++" in c++/cursesmain.cc
1500 + fix a few overlooked places for --enable-string-hacks option.
1503 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130831).
1504 + build-fix for --with-shared option for DragonFly and FreeBSD (report
1505 by Rong-En Fan, cf: 20130727).
1508 + build-fixes for MSYS for two test-programs (patches by Ray Donnelly,
1510 + revert change to two of the dpkg format files, to work with dpkg
1511 before/after Debian #700177.
1512 + fix gcc -Wconversion warning in wattr_get() macro.
1513 + add msys and msysdll to known host/configuration types (patch by
1515 + modify CF_RPATH_HACK configure macro to not rely upon "-u" option
1516 of sort, improving portability.
1517 + minor improvements for test-programs from reviewing Solaris port.
1518 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1519 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1522 + modify test/ncurses.c b/B tests to display lines only for the
1523 attributes which a given terminal supports, to make room for an
1525 + completed ncv table in terminfo.tail; it did not list the wide
1526 character codes listed in X/Open Curses issue 7.
1527 + add A_ITALIC extension (prompted by discussion with Egmont Koblinger).
1530 + fix some gcc 4.8 -Wconversion warnings.
1531 + change format of dpkg test-scripts to quilted to work around bug
1532 introduced by Debian #700177.
1533 + discard cached keyname() values if meta() is changed after a value
1534 was cached using (report by Kurban Mallachiev).
1537 + add checks in tic to warn about terminals which lack cursor
1538 addressing, capabilities or having those, are marked as hard_copy or
1540 + use --without-progs in mingw-ncurses rpm.
1541 + split out _nc_init_termtype() from alloc_entry.c to use in MinGW
1542 port when tic and other programs are not needed.
1545 + minor fixes to the --disable-overwrite logic, to ensure that the
1546 configured $(includedir) is not cancelled by the mingwxx-filesystem
1548 + add --disable-db-install configure option, to simplify building
1549 cross-compile support packages.
1550 + add mingw-ncurses.spec file, for testing cross-compiles.
1553 + improve configure macros from ongoing work on cdk, dialog, xterm:
1554 + CF_ADD_LIB_AFTER - fix a problem with -Wl options
1555 + CF_RPATH_HACK - add missing result-message
1556 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify to use $rel_builddir in cygwin and mingw
1557 dll symbols (which can be overridden) rather than explicit "../".
1558 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify NetBSD and DragonFly symbols to use ${CC}
1559 rather than ${LD} to improve rpath support.
1560 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - add a symbol to denote the temporary files that
1561 are created by the macro, to simplify clean-rules.
1562 + CF_X_ATHENA - trim extra libraries to work with -Wl,--as-needed
1563 + fix a regression in hashed-database support for NetBSD, which uses
1564 the key-size differently from other implementations (cf: 20121229).
1567 + further improvements for setupterm manpage, clarifying the
1568 initialization of cur_term.
1571 + improve manpages for initscr and setupterm.
1572 + minor compiler-warning fixes
1575 + add fallback defs for <inttypes.h> and <stdint.h> (cf: 20120225).
1576 + add check for size of wchar_t, use that to suppress a chunk of
1577 wcwidth.h in MinGW port.
1578 + quiet linker warnings for MinGW cross-compile with dll's using the
1579 --enable-auto-import flag.
1580 + add ncurses.map rule to ncurses/Makefile to help diagnose symbol
1584 + modify the clear program to take into account the E3 extended
1585 capability to clear the terminal's scrollback buffer (patch by
1586 Miroslav Lichvar, Redhat #815790).
1587 + clarify in resizeterm manpage that LINES and COLS are updated.
1588 + updated ansi example in terminfo.tail, correct misordered example
1590 + fix other doclifter warnings for manpages
1591 + remove unnecessary ".ta" in terminfo.tail, add missing ".fi"
1592 (patch by Eric Raymond).
1595 + minor changes to some configure macros to make them more reusable.
1596 + fixes for tabs program (prompted by report by Nick Andrik).
1597 + corrected logic in command-line parsing of -a and -c predefined
1599 + allow "-0" and "-8" options to be combined with others, e.g.,"-0d".
1600 + make warning messages more consistent with the other utilities by
1601 not printing the full pathname of the program.
1602 + add -V option for consistency with other utilities.
1603 + fix off-by-one in columns for tabs program when processing an option
1604 such as "-5" (patch by Nick Andrik).
1607 + add to test/demo_forms.c examples of using the menu-hooks as well
1608 as showing how the menu item user-data can be used to pass a callback
1610 + add test/dots_termcap.c
1611 + remove setupterm call from test/demo_termcap.c
1612 + build-fix if --disable-ext-funcs configure option is used.
1613 + modified test/edit_field.c and test/demo_forms.c to move the lengths
1614 into a user-data structure, keeping the original string for later
1615 expansion to free-format input/out demo.
1616 + modified test/demo_forms.c to load data from file.
1617 + added note to clarify Terminal.app's non-emulation of the various
1618 terminal types listed in the preferences dialog -TD
1619 + fix regression in error-reporting in lib_setup.c (Debian #711134,
1621 + build-fix for a case where --enable-broken_linker and
1622 --enable-reentrant options are combined (report by George R Goffe).
1625 + modify mvcur() to distinguish between internal use by the ncurses
1626 library, and external callers, preventing it from reading the content
1627 of the screen which is only nonblank when curses calls have updated
1628 it. This makes test/dots_mvcur.c avoid painting colored cells in
1629 the left margin of the display.
1630 + minor fix to test/dots_mvcur.c
1631 + move configured symbols USE_DATABASE and USE_TERMCAP to term.h as
1632 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE and NCURSES_USE_TERMCAP to allow consistent
1633 use of these symbols in term_entry.h
1636 + corrected ifdefs in test/testcurs.c to allow comparison of mouse
1637 interface versus pdcurses (cf: 20130316).
1638 + add pow() to configure-check for math library, needed since
1639 20121208 for test/hanoi (Debian #708056).
1640 + regenerated html manpages.
1641 + update doctype used for html documentation.
1644 + move nsterm-related entries out of "obsolete" section to more
1645 plausible "ansi consoles" -TD
1646 + additional cleanup of table-of-contents by reordering -TD
1647 + revise fix for check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch(); prior fix
1648 prevented inserts when video attributes were attached to the data
1649 (cf: 20121215) (Redhat #959534).
1652 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
1653 + correct FNKEY() macro in progs/dump_entry.c, allowing kf11-kf63 to
1654 display when infocmp's -R option is used for HP or AIX subsets.
1655 + fix dead-code issue with test/movewindow.c
1656 + improve limited-checking in _nc_read_termtype().
1659 + fix clang 3.2 warning in progs/dump_entry.c
1660 + drop AC_TYPE_SIGNAL check; ncurses relies on c89 and later.
1663 + add MinGW to cases where ncurses installs by default into /usr
1664 (prompted by discussion with Daniel Silva Ferreira).
1665 + add -D option to infocmp's usage-message (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
1666 + add a missing 'int' type for main function in configure check for
1667 type of bool variable, to work with clang 3.2 (report by Dmitri
1669 + improve configure check for static_cast, to work with clang 3.2
1670 (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
1671 + re-order rule for demo.o and macros defining header dependencies in
1672 c++/Makefile.in to accommodate gmake (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
1675 + improve parameter checking in copywin().
1676 + modify configure script to work around OS X's "libtool" program, to
1677 choose glibtool instead. At the same time, chance the autoconf macro
1678 to look for a "tool" rather than a "prog", to help with potential use
1680 + separate the rpath usage for c++ library from demo program
1682 + update/correct header-dependencies in c++ makefile (report by Werner
1684 + add --with-cxx-shared to dpkg-script, as done for rpm-script.
1687 + build-fix for libtool configuration (reports by Daniel Silva Ferreira
1691 + build-fix for OS X, to handle changes for --with-cxx-shared feature
1692 (report by Christian Ebert).
1693 + change initialization for vt220, similar entries for consistency
1694 with cursor-key strings (NetBSD #47674) -TD
1695 + further improvements to linux-16color (Benjamin Sittler)
1698 + additional fix for tic.c, to allocate missing buffer space.
1699 + eliminate configure-script warnings for gen-pkgconfig.in
1700 + correct typo in sgr string for sun-color,
1701 add bold for consistency with sgr,
1702 change smso for consistency with sgr -TD
1703 + correct typo in sgr string for terminator -TD
1704 + add blink to the attributes masked by ncv in linux-16color (report
1705 by Benjamin Sittler)
1706 + improve warning message from post-load checking for missing "%?"
1707 operator by tic/infocmp by showing the entry name and capability.
1708 + minor formatting improvement to tic/infocmp -f option to ensure
1709 line split after "%;".
1710 + amend scripting for --with-cxx-shared option to handle the debug
1711 library "libncurses++_g.a" (report by Sven Joachim).
1714 + amend change to toe.c for reading from /dev/zero, to ensure that
1715 there is a buffer for the temporary filename (cf: 20120324).
1716 + regenerated html manpages.
1717 + fix typo in terminfo.head (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130302).
1718 + updated some autoconf macros:
1719 + CF_ACVERSION_CHECK, from byacc 1.9 20130304
1720 + CF_INTEL_COMPILER, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE from luit 2.0-20130217
1721 + add configure option --with-cxx-shared to permit building
1722 libncurses++ as a shared library when using g++, e.g., the same
1723 limitations as libtool but better integrated with the usual build
1724 configuration (Redhat #911540).
1725 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to filter out build-path which was unnecessarily
1726 shown in curses.h (Debian #689131).
1729 + add section to terminfo manpage discussing user-defined capabilities.
1730 + update manpage description of NCURSES_NO_SETBUF, explaining why it
1732 + add a check in waddch_nosync() to ensure that tab characters are
1733 treated as control characters; some broken locales claim they are
1735 + add some traces to the Windows console driver.
1736 + initialize a temporary array in _nc_mbtowc, needed for some cases
1737 of raw input in MinGW port.
1740 + correct ifdef on change to lib_twait.c (report by Werner Fink).
1741 + update config.guess, config.sub
1744 + modify test/testcurs.c to work with mouse for ncurses as it does for
1746 + modify test/knight.c to work with mouse for pdcurses as it does for
1748 + modify internal recursion in wgetch() which handles cooked mode to
1749 check if the call to wgetnstr() returned an error. This can happen
1750 when both nocbreak() and nodelay() are set, for instance (report by
1751 Nils Christopher Brause) (cf: 960418).
1752 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
1753 + add a check for valid position in ClearToEOS()
1754 + fix in lib_twait.c when --enable-wgetch-events is used, pointer
1756 + improve a limit-check in make_hash.c
1757 + fix a memory leak in hashed_db.c
1760 + modify test/configure script to make it simpler to override names
1761 of curses-related libraries, to help with linking with pdcurses in
1763 + if the --with-terminfo-dirs configure option is not used, there is
1764 no corresponding compiled-in value for that. Fill in "no default
1765 value" for that part of the manpage substitution.
1768 + correct initialization in knight.c which let it occasionally make
1769 an incorrect move (cf: 20001028).
1770 + improve documentation of the terminfo/termcap search path.
1773 + further fixes to mvcur to pass callback function (cf: 20130112),
1774 needed to make test/dots_mvcur work.
1775 + reduce calls to SetConsoleActiveScreenBuffer in win_driver.c, to
1776 help reduce flicker.
1777 + modify configure script to omit "+b" from linker options for very
1778 old HP-UX systems (report by Dennis Grevenstein)
1779 + add HP-UX workaround for missing EILSEQ on old HP-UX systems (patch
1780 by Dennis Grevenstein).
1781 + restore memmove/strdup support for antique systems (request by
1782 Dennis Grevenstein).
1783 + change %l behavior in tparm to push the string length onto the stack
1784 rather than saving the formatted length into the output buffer
1785 (report by Roy Marples, cf: 980620).
1788 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
1789 + fix memory leak in safe_sprintf.c
1790 + add check for return-value in tty_update.c
1791 + correct initialization for -s option in test/view.c
1792 + add check for numeric overflow in lib_instr.c
1793 + improve error-checking in copywin
1794 + add advice in infocmp manpage for termcap users (Debian #698469).
1795 + add "-y" option to test/demo_termcap and test/demo_terminfo to
1796 demonstrate behavior with/without extended capabilities.
1797 + updated termcap manpage to document legacy termcap behavior for
1798 matching capability names.
1799 + modify name-comparison for tgetstr, etc., to accommodate legacy
1800 applications as well as to improve compatbility with BSD 4.2
1801 termcap implementations (Debian #698299) (cf: 980725).
1804 + correct prototype in manpage for vid_puts.
1805 + drop ncurses/tty/tty_display.h, ncurses/tty/tty_input.h, since they
1806 are unused in the current driver model.
1807 + modify mvcur to use stdout except when called within the ncurses
1809 + modify vidattr and vid_attr to use stdout as documented in manpage.
1810 + amend changes made to buffering in 20120825 so that the low-level
1811 putp() call uses stdout rather than ncurses' internal buffering.
1812 The putp_sp() call does the same, for consistency (Redhat #892674).
1815 + add "-s" option to test/view.c to allow it to start in single-step
1816 mode, reducing size of trace files when it is used for debugging
1818 + revert part of 20121222 change to tinfo_driver.c
1819 + add experimental logic in win_driver.c to improve optimization of
1820 screen updates. This does not yet work with double-width characters,
1821 so it is ifdef'd out for the moment (prompted by report by Erwin
1822 Waterlander regarding screen flicker).
1825 + fix coverity warnings regarding copying into fixed-size buffers.
1826 + add throw-declarations in the c++ binding per Coverity warning.
1827 + minor changes to new-items for consistent reference to bug-report
1831 + add *.dSYM directories to clean-rule in ncurses directory makefile,
1833 + add a configure check for gcc option -no-cpp-precomp, which is not
1834 available in all Mac OS X configurations (report by Andras Salamon,
1836 + improve 20021221 workaround for broken acs, handling a case where
1837 that ACS_xxx character is not in the acsc string but there is a known
1838 wide-character which can be used.
1841 + fix several warnings from clang 3.1 --analyze, includes correcting
1842 a null-pointer check in _nc_mvcur_resume.
1843 + correct display of double-width characters with MinGW port (report
1844 by Erwin Waterlander).
1845 + replace MinGW's wcrtomb(), fixing a problem with _nc_viscbuf
1846 > fixes based on Coverity report:
1847 + correct coloring in test/bs.c
1848 + correct check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch().
1849 + remove dead code in progs/tset.c, test/linedata.h
1850 + add null-pointer checks in lib_tracemse.c, panel.priv.h, and some
1854 + modify test/knight.c to show the number of choices possible for
1855 each position in automove option, e.g., to allow user to follow
1856 Warnsdorff's rule to solve the puzzle.
1857 + modify test/hanoi.c to show the minimum number of moves possible for
1858 the given number of tiles (prompted by patch by Lucas Gioia).
1859 > fixes based on Coverity report:
1860 + remove a few redundant checks.
1861 + correct logic in test/bs.c, when randomly placing a specific type of
1863 + check return value from remove/unlink in tic.
1864 + check return value from sscanf in test/ncurses.c
1865 + fix a null dereference in c++/cursesw.cc
1866 + fix two instances of uninitialized variables when configuring for the
1868 + correct scope of variable used in SetSafeOutcWrapper macro.
1869 + set umask when calling mkstemp in tic.
1870 + initialize wbkgrndset() temporary variable when extended-colors are
1874 + also replace MinGW's wctomb(), fixing a problem with setcchar().
1875 + modify test/view.c to load UTF-8 when built with MinGW by using
1876 regular win32 API because the MinGW functions mblen() and mbtowc()
1880 + correct order of color initialization versus display in some of the
1881 test-programs, e.g., test_addstr.c
1882 > fixes based on Coverity report:
1883 + delete windows on exit from some of the test-programs.
1886 > fixes based on Coverity report:
1887 + add missing braces around FreeAndNull in two places.
1888 + various fixes in test/ncurses.c
1889 + improve limit-checks in tinfo/make_hash.c, tinfo/read_entry.c
1890 + correct malloc size in progs/infocmp.c
1891 + guard against negative array indices in test/knight.c
1892 + fix off-by-one limit check in test/color_name.h
1893 + add null-pointer check in progs/tabs.c, test/bs.c, test/demo_forms.c,
1895 + fix memory-leak in tinfo/lib_setup.c, progs/toe.c,
1896 test/clip_printw.c, test/demo_menus.c
1897 + delete unused windows in test/chgat.c, test/clip_printw.c,
1898 test/insdelln.c, test/newdemo.c on error-return.
1901 + modify configure macro CF_INCLUDE_DIRS to put $CPPFLAGS after the
1902 local -I include options in case someone has set conflicting -I
1903 options in $CPPFLAGS (prompted by patch for ncurses/Makefile.in by
1905 + modify the ncurses*-config scripts to eliminate relative paths from
1906 the RPATH_LIST variable, e.g., "../lib" as used in installing shared
1907 libraries or executables.
1910 + realign these related pages:
1915 and fix a long-ago error in curs_addstr.3x which said that a -1
1916 length parameter would only write as much as fit onto one line
1917 (report by Reuben Thomas).
1918 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_memmove() for memmove()/bcopy().
1919 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_strdup() for strdup().
1920 + cancel any debug-rpm in package/ncurses.spec
1921 + reviewed vte-2012, reverted most of the change since it was incorrect
1922 based on testing with tack -TD
1923 + un-cancel the initc in vte-256color, since this was implemented
1924 starting with version 0.20 in 2009 -TD
1927 + improve malloc/realloc checking (prompted by discussion in Redhat
1929 + add ncurses test-program as "ncurses6" to the rpm- and dpkg-scripts.
1930 + updated configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_WITH_PATHLIST. The
1931 first corrects pattern used for Mac OS X's customization of gcc.
1934 + fix change to _nc_scroll_optimize(), which incorrectly freed memory
1938 + add vte-2012, gnome-2012, making these the defaults for vte/gnome
1939 (patch by Christian Persch).
1942 + improve CF_GCC_VERSION to work around Debian's customization of gcc
1944 + improve configure macros as done in byacc:
1945 + drop 2.13 compatibility; use 2.52.xxxx version only since EMX port
1946 has used that for a while.
1947 + add 3rd parameter to AC_DEFINE's to allow autoheader to run, i.e.,
1948 for experimental use.
1949 + remove unused configure macros.
1950 + modify configure script and makefiles to quiet new autoconf warning
1951 for LIBS_TO_MAKE variable.
1952 + modify configure script to show $PATH_SEPARATOR variable.
1953 + update config.guess, config.sub
1956 + modify setupterm to set its copy of TERM to "unknown" if configured
1957 for the terminal driver and TERM was null or empty.
1958 + modify treatment of TERM variable for MinGW port to allow explicit
1959 use of the windows console driver by checking if $TERM is set to
1960 "#win32con" or an abbreviation of that.
1961 + undo recent change to fallback definition of vsscanf() to build with
1962 older Solaris compilers (cf: 20120728).
1965 + add test-screens to test/ncurses to show 256-characters at a time,
1966 to help with MinGW port.
1969 + simplify varargs logic in lib_printw.c; va_copy is no longer needed
1971 + modifications for MinGW port to make wide-character display usable.
1974 + regenerate configure script (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20120901).
1977 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_flush (cf: 20120825).
1978 + fix a case in _nc_scroll_optimize() where the _oldnums_list array
1979 might not be allocated.
1980 + improve comparisons in configure.in for unset shell variables.
1983 + increase size of ncurses' output-buffer, in case of very small
1984 initial screen-sizes.
1985 + fix evaluation of TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS default values as needed
1986 after changes to use --datarootdir (reports by Gabriele Balducci,
1990 + change output buffering scheme, using buffer maintained by ncurses
1991 rather than stdio, to avoid problems with SIGTSTP handling (report
1995 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20120811, adding --datarootdir
1996 (prompted by discussion with Erwin Waterlander).
1997 + improve description of --enable-reentrant option in README and the
1999 + add nsterm-256color, make this the default nsterm -TD
2000 + remove bw from nsterm-bce, per testing with tack -TD
2003 + update test/configure, adding check for tinfo library.
2004 + improve limit-checks for the getch fifo (report by Werner Fink).
2005 + fix a remaining mismatch between $with_echo and the symbols updated
2006 for CF_DISABLE_ECHO affecting parameters for mk-2nd.awk (report by
2007 Sven Joachim, cf: 20120317).
2008 + modify followup check for pkg-config's library directory in the
2009 --enable-pc-files option to validate syntax (report by Sven Joachim,
2013 + correct path for ncurses_mingw.h in include/headers, in case build
2014 is done outside source-tree (patch by Roumen Petrov).
2015 + modify some older xterm entries to align with xterm source -TD
2016 + separate "xterm-old" alias from "xterm-r6" -TD
2017 + add E3 extended capability to xterm-basic and putty -TD
2018 + parenthesize parameters of other macros in curses.h -TD
2019 + parenthesize parameter of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER in curses.h
2020 in case it happens to be a comma-expression, etc. (patch by Nick
2024 + improved form_request_by_name() and menu_request_by_name().
2025 + eliminate two fixed-size buffers in toe.c
2026 + extend use_tioctl() to have expected behavior when use_env(FALSE) and
2027 use_tioctl(TRUE) are called.
2028 + modify ncurses test-program, adding -E and -T options to demonstrate
2029 use_env() versus use_tioctl().
2032 + add use_tioctl() function (adapted from patch by Werner Fink,
2036 + add ncurses_mingw.h to installed headers (prompted by patch by
2038 + clarify return-codes from wgetch() in response to SIGWINCH (prompted
2040 + modify resizeterm() to always push a KEY_RESIZE onto the fifo, even
2041 if screensize is unchanged. Modify _nc_update_screensize() to push a
2042 KEY_RESIZE if there was a SIGWINCH, even if it does not call
2043 resizeterm(). These changes eliminate the case where a SIGWINCH is
2044 received, but ERR returned from wgetch or wgetnstr because the screen
2045 dimensions did not change (Novell #769788).
2048 + add --enable-interop to sample package scripts (suggested by Juergen
2050 + update CF_PATH_SYNTAX macro, from mawk changes.
2051 + modify mk-0th.awk to allow for generating llib-ltic, etc., though
2052 some work is needed on cproto to work with lib_gen.c to update
2054 + remove redundant getenv() cal in database-iterator leftover from
2055 cleanup in 20120622 changes (report by Sven Joachim).
2058 + add -d, -e and -q options to test/demo_terminfo and test/demo_termcap
2059 + fix caching of environment variables in database-iterator (patch by
2060 Philippe Troin, Redhat #831366).
2063 + add configure check to distinguish clang from gcc to eliminate
2064 warnings about unused command-line parameters when compiler warnings
2066 + improve behavior when updating terminfo entries which are hardlinked
2067 by allowing for the possibility that an alias has been repurposed to
2069 + fix some strict compiler warnings based on package scripts.
2070 + further fixes for configure check for working poll (Debian #676461).
2073 + fix an uninitialized variable in -c/-n logic for infocmp changes
2075 + corrected fix for building c++ binding with clang 3.0 (report/patch
2076 by Richard Yao, Gentoo #417613, cf: 20110409)
2077 + correct configure check for working poll, fixing the case where stdin
2078 is redirected, e.g., in rpm/dpkg builds (Debian #676461).
2079 + add rpm- and dpkg-scripts, to test those build-environments.
2080 The resulting packages are used only for testing.
2083 + add kdch1 aka "Remove" to vt220 and vt220-8 entries -TD
2084 + add kdch1, etc., to qvt108 -TD
2085 + add dl1/il1 to some entries based on dl/il values -TD
2086 + add dl to simpleterm -TD
2087 + add consistency-checks in tic for insert-line vs delete-line
2088 controls, and insert/delete-char keys
2089 + correct no-leaks logic in infocmp when doing comparisons, fixing
2090 duplicate free of entries given via the command-line, and freeing
2091 entries loaded from the last-but-one of files specified on the
2093 + add kdch1 to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (reported by David Lord,
2094 analysis by Martin Husemann).
2095 + add cnorm/civis to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (report/analysis by
2096 Onno van der Linden).
2099 + extend -c and -n options of infocmp to allow comparing more than two
2101 + correct check in infocmp for number of terminal names when more than
2103 + correct typo in curs_threads.3x (report by Yanhui Shen on
2104 freebsd-hackers mailing list).
2107 + corrected 'op' for bterm (report by Samuel Thibault) -TD
2108 + modify test/background.c to demonstrate a background character
2109 holding a colored ACS_HLINE. The behavior differs from SVr4 due to
2110 the thick- and double-line extension (cf: 20091003).
2111 + modify handling of acs characters in PutAttrChar to avoid mapping an
2112 unmapped character to a space with A_ALTCHARSET set.
2113 + rewrite vt520 entry based on vt420 -TD
2116 + remove p6 (bold) from opus3n1+ for consistency -TD
2117 + remove acs stuff from env230 per clues in Ingres termcap -TD
2118 + modify env230 sgr/sgr0 to match other capabilities -TD
2119 + modify smacs/rmacs in bq300-8 to match sgr/sgr0 -TD
2120 + make sgr for dku7202 agree with other caps -TD
2121 + make sgr for ibmpc agree with other caps -TD
2122 + make sgr for tek4107 agree with other caps -TD
2123 + make sgr for ndr9500 agree with other caps -TD
2124 + make sgr for sco-ansi agree with other caps -TD
2125 + make sgr for d410 agree with other caps -TD
2126 + make sgr for d210 agree with other caps -TD
2127 + make sgr for d470c, d470c-7b agree with other caps -TD
2128 + remove redundant AC_DEFINE for NDEBUG versus Makefile definition.
2129 + fix a back-link in _nc_delink_entry(), which is needed if ncurses is
2130 configured with --enable-termcap and --disable-getcap.
2133 + fix some inconsistencies between vt320/vt420, e.g., cnorm/civis -TD
2134 + add eslok flag to dec+sl -TD
2135 + dec+sl applies to vt320 and up -TD
2136 + drop wsl width from xterm+sl -TD
2137 + reuse xterm+sl in putty and nsca-m -TD
2138 + add ansi+tabs to vt520 -TD
2139 + add ansi+enq to vt220-vt520 -TD
2140 + fix a compiler warning in example in ncurses-intro.doc (Paul Waring).
2141 + added paragraph in keyname manpage telling how extended capabilities
2142 are interpreted as key definitions.
2143 + modify tic's check of conflicting key definitions to include extended
2144 capability strings in addition to the existing check on predefined
2148 + improve cleanup of temporary files in tic using atexit().
2149 + add msgr to vt420, similar DEC vtXXX entries -TD
2150 + add several missing vt420 capabilities from vt220 -TD
2151 + factor out ansi+pp from several entries -TD
2152 + change xterm+sl and xterm+sl-twm to include only the status-line
2153 capabilities and not "use=xterm", making them more generally useful
2154 as building-blocks -TD
2155 + add dec+sl building block, as example -TD
2158 + add XT to some terminfo entries to improve usefulness for other
2159 applications than screen, which would like to pretend that xterm's
2160 title is a status-line. -TD
2161 + change use-clauses in ansi-mtabs, hp2626, and hp2622 based on review
2162 of ordering and overrides -TD
2163 + add consistency check in tic for screen's "XT" capability.
2164 + add section in terminfo.src summarizing the user-defined capabilities
2165 used in that file -TD
2168 + fix an inconsistency between tic/infocmp "-x" option; tic omits all
2169 non-standard capabilities, while infocmp was ignoring only the user
2170 definable capabilities.
2171 + improve special case in tic parsing of description to allow it to be
2172 followed by terminfo capabilities. Previously the description had to
2173 be the last field on an input line to allow tic to distinguish
2174 between termcap and terminfo format while still allowing commas to be
2175 embedded in the description.
2176 + correct variable name in gen_edit.sh which broke configurability of
2177 the --with-xterm-kbs option.
2178 + revert 2011-07-16 change to "linux" alias, return to "linux2.2" -TD
2179 + further amend 20110910 change, providing for configure-script
2180 override of the "linux" terminfo entry to install and changing the
2181 default for that to "linux2.2" (Debian #665959).
2184 + update Ada95/configure to use CF_DISABLE_ECHO (cf: 20120317).
2185 + correct order of use-clauses in st-256color -TD
2186 + modify configure script to look for gnatgcc if the Ada95 binding
2187 is built, in preference to the default gcc/cc (suggested by
2188 Nicolas Boulenguez).
2189 + modify configure script to ensure that the same -On option used for
2190 the C compiler in CFLAGS is used for ADAFLAGS rather than simply
2191 using "-O3" (suggested by Nicolas Boulenguez)
2194 + amend an old fix so that next_char() exits properly for empty files,
2195 e.g., from reading /dev/null (cf: 20080804).
2196 + modify tic so that it can read from the standard input, or from
2197 a character device. Because tic uses seek's, this requires writing
2198 the data to a temporary file first (prompted by remark by Sven
2199 Joachim) (cf: 20000923).
2202 + correct a check made in lib_napms.c, so that terminfo applications
2203 can again use napms() (cf: 20110604).
2204 + add a note in tic.h regarding required casts for ABSENT_BOOLEAN
2206 + correct scripting for --disable-echo option in test/configure.
2207 + amend check for missing c++ compiler to work when no error is
2208 reported, and no variables set (cf: 20021206).
2209 + add/use configure macro CF_DISABLE_ECHO.
2212 + fix some strict compiler warnings for abi6 and 64-bits.
2213 + use begin_va_copy/end_va_copy macros in lib_printw.c (cf: 20120303).
2214 + improve a limit-check in infocmp.c (Werner Fink):
2217 + minor tidying of terminfo.tail, clarify reason for limitation
2218 regarding mapping of \0 to \200
2219 + minor improvement to _nc_copy_termtype(), using memcpy to replace
2221 + fix no-leaks checking in test/demo_termcap.c to account for multiple
2222 calls to setupterm().
2223 + modified the libgpm change to show previous load as a problem in the
2225 > merge some patches from OpenSUSE rpm (Werner Fink):
2226 + ncurses-5.7-printw.dif, fixes for varargs handling in lib_printw.c
2227 + ncurses-5.7-gpm.dif, do not dlopen libgpm if already loaded by
2229 + ncurses-5.6-fallback.dif, do not free arrays and strings from static
2233 + fix breakage in tic/infocmp from 20120225 (report by Werner Fink).
2236 + modify configure script to allow creating dll's for MinGW when
2238 + add --enable-string-hacks option to control whether strlcat and
2239 strlcpy may be used. The same issue applies to OpenBSD's warnings
2240 about snprintf, noting that this function is weakly standardized.
2241 + add configure checks for strlcat, strlcpy and snprintf, to help
2242 reduce bogus warnings with OpenBSD builds.
2243 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 to supply consistent intptr_t declaration
2245 + update config.guess, config.sub
2248 + correct CF_ETIP_DEFINES configure macro, making it exit properly on
2249 the first success (patch by Pierre Labastie).
2250 + improve configure macro CF_MKSTEMP by moving existence-check for
2251 mkstemp out of the AC_TRY_RUN, to help with cross-compiles.
2252 + improve configure macro CF_FUNC_POLL from luit changes to detect
2253 broken implementations, e.g., with Mac OS X.
2254 + add configure option --with-tparm-arg
2255 + build-fix for MinGW cross-compiling, so that make_hash does not
2256 depend on TTY definition (cf: 20111008).
2259 + make sgr for xterm-pcolor agree with other caps -TD
2260 + make sgr for att5425 agree with other caps -TD
2261 + make sgr for att630 agree with other caps -TD
2262 + make sgr for linux entries agree with other caps -TD
2263 + make sgr for tvi9065 agree with other caps -TD
2264 + make sgr for ncr260vt200an agree with other caps -TD
2265 + make sgr for ncr160vt100pp agree with other caps -TD
2266 + make sgr for ncr260vt300an agree with other caps -TD
2267 + make sgr for aaa-60-dec-rv, aaa+dec agree with other caps -TD
2268 + make sgr for cygwin, cygwinDBG agree with other caps -TD
2269 + add configure option --with-xterm-kbs to simplify configuration for
2270 Linux versus most other systems.
2273 + improved tic -D option, avoid making target directory and provide
2277 + add mach-gnu (Debian #614316, patch by Samuel Thibault)
2278 + add mach-gnu-color, tweaks to mach-gnu terminfo -TD
2279 + make sgr for sun-color agree with smso -TD
2280 + make sgr for prism9 agree with other caps -TD
2281 + make sgr for icl6404 agree with other caps -TD
2282 + make sgr for ofcons agree with other caps -TD
2283 + make sgr for att5410v1, att4415, att620 agree with other caps -TD
2284 + make sgr for aaa-unk, aaa-rv agree with other caps -TD
2285 + make sgr for avt-ns agree with other caps -TD
2286 + amend fix intended to separate fixups for acsc to allow "tic -cv" to
2287 give verbose warnings (cf: 20110730).
2288 + modify misc/gen-edit.sh to make the location of the tabset directory
2289 consistent with misc/Makefile.in, i.e., using ${datadir}/tabset
2290 (Debian #653435, patch by Sven Joachim).
2293 + add --with-lib-prefix option to allow configuring for old/new flavors
2295 + modify check for gnat version to allow for year, as used in FreeBSD
2297 + modify check_existence() in db_iterator.c to simply check if the
2298 path is a directory or file, according to the need. Checking for
2299 directory size also gives no usable result with OS/2 (cf: 20120107).
2300 + support OS/2 kLIBC (patch by KO Myung-Hun).
2303 + several improvements to test/movewindow.c (prompted by discussion on
2305 + modify movement commands to make them continuous
2306 + rewrote the test for mvderwin
2307 + rewrote the test for recursive mvwin
2308 + split-out reusable CF_WITH_NCURSES_ETC macro in test/configure.in
2309 + updated configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, build-fixes for Mac OS X
2311 + regenerated html manpages.
2314 + various improvments for MinGW (Juergen Pfeifer):
2315 + modify stat() calls to ignore the st_size member
2316 + drop mk-dlls.sh script.
2317 + change recommended regular expression library.
2318 + modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuraton.
2319 + modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used.
2322 + modify toe's report when -a and -s options are combined, to add
2323 a column showing which entries belong to a given database.
2324 + add -s option to toe, to sort its output.
2325 + modify progs/toe.c, simplifying use of db-iterator results to use
2326 caching improvements from 20111001 and 20111126.
2327 + correct generation of pc-files when ticlib or termlib options are
2328 given to rename the corresponding tic- or tinfo-libraries (report
2332 + document a portability issue with tput, i.e., that scripts which work
2333 with ncurses may fail in other implementations that do no parameter
2335 + add putty-sco entry -TD
2338 + review/fix places in manpages where --program-prefix configure option
2340 + add -D option to infocmp, to show the database locations that it
2342 + fix build for the special case where term-driver, ticlib and termlib
2343 are all enabled. The terminal driver depends on a few features in
2344 the base ncurses library, so tic's dependencies include both ncurses
2346 + fix build work for term-driver when --enable-wgetch-events option is
2348 + use <stdint.h> types to fix some questionable casts to void*.
2351 + modify configure script to check if thread library provides
2352 pthread_mutexattr_settype(), e.g., not provided by Solaris 2.6
2353 + modify configure script to suppress check to define _XOPEN_SOURCE
2354 for IRIX64, since its header files have a conflict versus
2356 + modify configure script to add ".pc" files for tic- and
2357 tinfo-libraries, which were omitted in recent change (cf: 20111126).
2358 + fix inconsistent checks on $PKG_CONFIG variable in configure script.
2361 + modify configure-check for etip.h dependencies, supplying a temporary
2362 copy of ncurses_dll.h since it is a generated file (prompted by
2364 + modify CF_CPP_PARAM_INIT "main" function to work with current C++.
2367 + correct database iterator's check for duplicate entries
2369 + modify database iterator to ignore $TERMCAP when it is not an
2371 + add -D option to tic, to show the database locations that it could
2373 + improve description of database locations in tic manpage.
2374 + modify the configure script to generate a list of the ".pc" files to
2375 generate, rather than deriving the list from the libraries which have
2376 been built (patch by Mike Frysinger).
2377 + use AC_CHECK_TOOLS in preference to AC_PATH_PROGS when searching for
2378 ncurses*-config, e.g., in Ada95/configure and test/configure (adapted
2379 from patch by Mike Frysinger).
2382 + remove obsolete/conflicting fallback definition for _POSIX_SOURCE
2383 from curses.priv.h, fixing a regression with IRIX64 and Tru64
2385 + modify _nc_tic_dir() to ensure that its return-value is nonnull,
2386 i.e., the database iterator was not initialized. This case is needed
2387 to when tic is translating to termcap, rather than loading the
2388 database (cf: 20111001).
2391 + add pccon entries for OpenBSD console (Alexei Malinin).
2392 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 with gcc 4.2.1, setting _XOPEN_SOURCE to
2393 600 to work around inconsistent ifdef'ing of wcstof between C and
2395 + modify capconvert script to accept more than exact match on "xterm",
2396 e.g., the "xterm-*" variants, to exclude from the conversion (patch
2398 + add -lc_r as alternative for -lpthread, allows build of threaded code
2399 in older FreeBSD machines.
2400 + build-fix for MirBSD, which fails when either _XOPEN_SOURCE or
2401 _POSIX_SOURCE are defined.
2402 + fix a typo misc/Makefile.in, used in uninstalling pc-files.
2405 + modify make_db_path() to allow creating "terminfo.db" in the same
2406 directory as an existing "terminfo" directory. This fixes a case
2407 where switching between hashed/filesystem databases would cause the
2408 new hashed database to be installed in the next best location -
2409 root's home directory.
2410 + add variable cf_cv_prog_gnat_correct to those passed to
2411 config.status, fixing a problem with Ada95 builds (cf: 20111022).
2412 + change feature test from _XPG5 to _XOPEN_SOURCE in two places, to
2413 accommodate broken implementations for _XPG6.
2414 + eliminate usage of NULL symbol from etip.h, to reduce header
2416 + add configure check to decide when to add _XOPEN_SOURCE define to
2417 compiler options, i.e., for Solaris 10 and later (cf: 20100403).
2418 This is a workaround for gcc 4.6, which fails to build the c++
2419 binding if that symbol is defined by the application, due to
2420 incorrectly combining the corresponding feature test macros
2421 (report by Peter Kruse).
2424 + correct logic for discarding mouse events, retaining the partial
2425 events used to build up click, double-click, etc, until needed
2427 + fix configure script to avoid creating unused Ada95 makefile when
2429 + cleanup width-related gcc 3.4.3 warnings for 64-bit platform, for the
2430 internal functions of libncurses. The external interface of courses
2431 uses bool, which still produces these warnings.
2434 + improve description of --disable-tic-depends option to make it
2435 clear that it may be useful whether or not the --with-termlib
2436 option is also given (report by Sven Joachim).
2437 + amend termcap equivalent for set_pglen_inch to use the X/Open
2438 "YI" rather than the obsolete Solaris 2.5 "sL" (cf: 990109).
2439 + improve manpage for tgetent differences from termcap library.
2442 + moved static data from db_iterator.c to lib_data.c
2443 + modify db_iterator.c for memory-leak checking, fix one leak.
2444 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to use Requires.private for the parts
2445 of ncurses rather than Requires, as well as Libs.private for the
2446 other library dependencies (prompted by Debian #644728).
2449 + modify tic "-K" option to only set the strict-flag rather than force
2450 source-output. That allows the same flag to control the parser for
2451 input and output of termcap source.
2452 + modify _nc_getent() to ignore backslash at the end of a comment line,
2453 making it consistent with ncurses' parser.
2454 + restore a special-case check for directory needed to make termcap
2455 text files load as if they were databases (cf: 20110924).
2456 + modify tic's resolution/collision checking to attempt to remove the
2457 conflicting alias from the second entry in the pair, which is
2458 normally following in the source file. Also improved the warning
2459 message to make it simpler to see which alias is the problem.
2460 + improve performance of the database iterator by caching search-list.
2463 + add a missing "else" in changes to _nc_read_tic_entry().
2466 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() so that hashed-database is checked before
2468 + updated CF_CURSES_LIBS check in test/configure script.
2469 + modify configure script and makefiles to split TIC_ARGS and
2470 TINFO_ARGS into pieces corresponding to LDFLAGS and LIBS variables,
2471 to help separate searches for tic- and tinfo-libraries (patch by Nick
2473 + build-fix for lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20110917).
2476 + fix compiler warning for clang 2.9
2477 + improve merging of mouse events (integrated patch by Damien
2479 + correct mask-check used in lib_mouse for wheel mouse buttons 4/5
2480 (patch by Damien Guibouret).
2483 + modify misc/gen_edit.sh to select a "linux" entry which works with
2484 the current kernel rather than assuming it is always "linux3.0"
2486 + revert a change to getmouse() which had the undesirable side-effect
2487 of suppressing button-release events (report by Damien Guibouret,
2489 + add xterm+kbs fragment from xterm #272 -TD
2490 + add configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir to provide control over
2491 the actual directory into which pc-files are installed, do not use
2492 the pkg-config environment variables (discussion with Frederic L W
2494 + add link to mailing-list archive in announce.html.in, as done in
2495 FAQ (prompted by question by Andrius Bentkus).
2496 + improve manpage install by adjusting the "#include" examples to
2497 show the ncurses-subdirectory used when --disable-overwrite option
2499 + install an alias for "curses" to the ncurses manpage, tied to the
2500 --with-curses-h configure option (suggested by Reuben Thomas).
2503 + propagate error-returns from wresize, i.e., the internal
2504 increase_size and decrease_size functions through resize_term (report
2505 by Tim van der Molen, cf: 20020713).
2506 + fix typo in tset manpage (patch by Sven Joachim).
2509 + add a check to ensure that termcap files which might have "^?" do
2510 not use the terminfo interpretation as "\177".
2511 + minor cleanup of X-terminal emulator section of terminfo.src -TD
2512 + add terminator entry -TD
2513 + add simpleterm entry -TD
2514 + improve wattr_get macros by ensuring that if the window pointer is
2515 null, then the attribute and color values returned will be zero
2519 + add substitution for $RPATH_LIST to misc/ncurses-config.in
2520 + improve performance of tic with hashed-database by caching the
2521 database connection, using atexit() to cleanup.
2522 + modify treatment of 2-character aliases at the beginning of termcap
2523 entries so they are not counted in use-resolution, since these are
2524 guaranteed to be unique. Also ignore these aliases when reporting
2525 the primary name of the entry (cf: 20040501)
2526 + double-check gn (generic) flag in terminal descriptions to
2527 accommodate old/buggy termcap databases which misused that feature.
2528 + minor fixes to _nc_tgetent(), ensure buffer is initialized even on
2532 + improve rpath fix from 20110730 by ensuring that the new $RPATH_LIST
2533 variable is defined in the makefiles which use it.
2534 + build-fix for DragonFlyBSD's pkgsrc in test/configure script.
2535 + build-fixes for NetBSD 5.1 with termcap support enabled.
2536 + corrected k9 in dg460-ansi, add other features based on manuals -TD
2537 + improve trimming of whitespace at the end of terminfo/termcap output
2539 + when writing termcap source, ensure that colons in the description
2540 field are translated to a non-delimiter, i.e., "=".
2541 + add "-0" option to tic/infocmp, to make the termcap/terminfo source
2543 + add a null-pointer check when handling the $CC variable.
2546 + modify configure script and makefiles in c++ and progs to allow the
2547 directory used for rpath option to be overridden, e.g., to work
2548 around updates to the variables used by tic during an install.
2549 + add -K option to tic/infocmp, to provide stricter BSD-compatibility
2551 + add _nc_strict_bsd variable in tic library which controls the
2552 "strict" BSD termcap compatibility from 20110723, plus these
2554 + allow escapes such as "\8" and "\9" when reading termcap
2555 + disallow "\a", "\e", "\l", "\s" and "\:" escapes when reading
2556 termcap files, passing through "a", "e", etc.
2557 + expand "\:" as "\072" on output.
2558 + modify _nc_get_token() to reset the token's string value in case
2559 there is a string-typed token lacking the "=" marker.
2560 + fix a few memory leaks in _nc_tgetent.
2561 + fix a few places where reading from a termcap file could refer to
2563 + add an overflow check when converting terminfo/termcap numeric
2564 values, since terminfo stores those in a short, and they must be
2566 + correct internal variables used for translating to termcap "%>"
2567 feature, and translating from termcap %B to terminfo, needed by
2568 tctest (cf: 19991211).
2569 + amend a minor fix to acsc when loading a termcap file to separate it
2570 from warnings needed for tic (cf: 20040710)
2571 + modify logic in _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_tic_entry() to allow
2572 a termcap file to be handled via TERMINFO_DIRS.
2573 + modify _nc_infotocap() to include non-mandatory padding when
2574 translating to termcap.
2575 + modify _nc_read_termcap_entry(), passing a flag in the case where
2576 getcap is used, to reduce interactive warning messages.
2579 + add a check in start_color() to limit color-pairs to 256 when
2580 extended colors are not supported (patch by David Benjamin).
2581 + modify setcchar to omit no-longer-needed OR'ing of color pair in
2582 the SetAttr() macro (patch by David Benjamin).
2583 + add kich1 to sun terminfo entry (Yuri Pankov)
2584 + use bold rather than reverse for smso in sun-color terminfo entry
2586 + improve generation of termcap using tic/infocmp -C option, e.g.,
2587 to correspond with 4.2BSD (prompted by discussion with Yuri Pankov
2588 regarding Schilling's test program):
2589 + translate %02 and %03 to %2 and %3 respectively.
2590 + suppress string capabilities which use %s, not supported by tgoto
2591 + use \040 rather than \s
2592 + expand null characters as \200 rather than \0
2593 + modify configure script to support shared libraries for DragonFlyBSD.
2596 + replace an assert() in _nc_Free_Argument() with a regular null
2597 pointer check (report/analysis by Franjo Ivancic).
2598 + modify configure --enable-pc-files option to take into account the
2599 PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
2600 + add/use xterm+tmux chunk from xterm #271 -TD
2601 + resync xterm-new entry from xterm #271 -TD
2602 + add E3 extended capability to linux-basic (Miroslav Lichvar)
2603 + add linux2.2, linux2.6, linux3.0 entries to give context for E3 -TD
2604 + add SI/SO change to linux2.6 entry (Debian #515609) -TD
2605 + fix inconsistent tabset path in pcmw (Todd C. Miller).
2606 + remove a backslash which continued comment, obscuring altos3
2607 definition with OpenBSD toolset (Nicholas Marriott).
2610 + add workaround from xterm #271 changes to ensure that compiler flags
2611 are not used in the $CC variable.
2612 + improve support for shared libraries, tested with AIX 5.3, 6.1 and
2613 7.1 with both gcc 4.2.4 and cc.
2614 + modify configure checks for AIX to include release 7.x
2615 + add loader flags/libraries to libtool options so that dynamic loading
2616 works properly, adapted from ncurses-5.7-ldflags-with-libtool.patch
2617 at gentoo prefix repository (patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
2620 + move include of nc_termios.h out of term_entry.h, since the latter
2621 is installed, e.g., for tack while the former is not (report by
2625 + improve cleanup() function in lib_tstp.c, using _exit() rather than
2626 exit() and checking for SIGTERM rather than SIGQUIT (prompted by
2627 comments forwarded by Nicholas Marriott).
2628 + reduce name pollution from term.h, moving fallback #define's for
2629 tcgetattr(), etc., to new private header nc_termios.h (report by
2631 + two minor fixes for tracing (patch by Vassili Courzakis).
2632 + improve trace initialization by starting it in use_env() and
2634 + review old email, add details for some changelog entries.
2637 + update minix entry to minix 3.2 (Thomas Cort).
2638 + fix a strict compiler warning in change to wattr_get (cf: 20110528).
2641 + fixes for MirBSD port:
2642 + set default prefix to /usr.
2643 + add support for shared libraries in configure script.
2644 + use S_ISREG and S_ISDIR consistently, with fallback definitions.
2645 + add a few more checks based on ncurses/link_test.
2646 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle sp-funcs renaming of NCURSES_OUTC type.
2649 + add case to CF_SHARED_OPTS for Interix (patch by Markus Duft).
2650 + used ncurses/link_test to check for behavior when the terminal has
2651 not been initialized and when an application passes null pointers
2652 to the library. Added checks to cover this (prompted by Redhat
2654 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to make its main() function call each function
2655 with zero parameters, to help find inconsistent checking for null
2659 + fix warnings from clang 2.7 "--analyze"
2662 + compiler-warning fixes in panel and progs.
2663 + modify CF_PKG_CONFIG macro, from changes to tin -TD
2664 + modify CF_CURSES_FUNCS configure macro, used in test directory
2666 + work around (non-optimizer) bug in gcc 4.2.1 which caused
2667 test-expression to be omitted from executable.
2668 + force the linker to see a link-time expression of a symbol, to
2669 help work around weak-symbol issues.
2672 + update discussion of MKfallback.sh script in INSTALL; normally the
2673 script is used automatically via the configured makefiles. However
2674 there are still occasions when it might be used directly by packagers
2675 (report by Gunter Schaffler).
2676 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to omit the "-L" option from the
2677 "--libs" output if the library directory is /usr/lib.
2678 + change order of tests for curses.h versus ncurses.h headers in the
2679 configure scripts for Ada95 and test-directories, to look for
2680 ncurses.h, from fixes to tin -TD
2681 + modify ncurses/tinfo/access.c to account for Tandem's root uid
2682 (report by Joachim Schmitz).
2685 + modify rules in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to ensure that the PIC option
2686 is not used when building a static library (report by Nicolas
2688 + Ada95 build-fix for big-endian architectures such as sparc. This
2689 undoes one of the fixes from 20110319, which added an "Unused" member
2690 to representation clauses, replacing that with pragmas to suppress
2691 warnings about unused bits (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
2694 + add check in test/configure for use_window, use_screen.
2695 + add configure-checks for getopt's variables, which may be declared
2696 as different types on some Unix systems.
2697 + add check in test/configure for some legacy curses types of the
2698 function pointer passed to tputs().
2699 + modify init_pair() to accept -1's for color value after
2700 assume_default_colors() has been called (Debian #337095).
2701 + modify test/background.c, adding commmand-line options to demonstrate
2702 assume_default_colors() and use_default_colors().
2705 + modify configure script/source-code to only define _POSIX_SOURCE if
2706 the checks for sigaction and/or termios fail, and if _POSIX_C_SOURCE
2707 and _XOPEN_SOURCE are undefined (report by Valentin Ochs).
2708 + update config.guess, config.sub
2711 + fixes to build c++ binding with clang 3.0 (patch by Alexander
2713 + add check for unctrl.h in test/configure, to work around breakage in
2714 some ncurses packages.
2715 + add "--disable-widec" option to test/configure script.
2716 + add "--with-curses-colr" and "--with-curses-5lib" options to the
2717 test/configure script to address testing with very old machines.
2719 20110404 5.9 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2722 + various build-fixes for the rpm/dpkg scripts.
2723 + add "--enable-rpath-link" option to Ada95/configure, to allow
2724 packages to suppress the rpath feature which is normally used for
2725 the in-tree build of sample programs.
2726 + corrected definition of libdir variable in Ada95/src/Makefile.in,
2727 needed for rpm script.
2728 + add "--with-shared" option to Ada95/configure script, to allow
2729 making the C-language parts of the binding use appropriate compiler
2730 options if building a shared library with gnat.
2733 > portability fixes for Ada95 binding:
2734 + add configure check to ensure that SIGINT works with gnat. This is
2735 needed for the "rain" sample program. If SIGINT does not work, omit
2736 that sample program.
2737 + correct typo in check of $PKG_CONFIG variable in Ada95/configure
2738 + add ncurses_compat.c, to supply functions used in the Ada95 binding
2739 which were added in 5.7 and later.
2740 + modify sed expression in CF_NCURSES_ADDON to eliminate a dependency
2744 + add special check in Ada95/configure script for ncurses6 reentrant
2746 + regen Ada html documentation.
2747 + build-fix for Ada shared libraries versus the varargs workaround.
2748 + add rpm and dpkg scripts for Ada95 and test directories, for test
2750 + update test/configure macros CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and
2752 + add configure check to determine if gnat's project feature supports
2753 libraries, i.e., collections of .ali files.
2754 + make all dereferences in Ada95 samples explicit.
2755 + fix typo in comment in lib_add_wch.c (patch by Petr Pavlu).
2756 + add configure check for, ifdef's for math.h which is in a separate
2757 package on Solaris and potentially not installed (report by Petr
2759 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
2760 + improve type-checking in Ada95 by eliminating a few warning-suppress
2762 + suppress unreferenced warnings.
2763 + make all dereferences in binding explicit.
2766 + regen Ada html documentation.
2767 + change order of -I options from ncurses*-config script when the
2768 --disable-overwrite option was used, so that the subdirectory include
2770 + modify the make-tar.sh scripts to add a MANIFEST and NEWS file.
2771 + modify configure script to provide value for HTML_DIR in
2772 Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, which depends on whether the Ada95 binding is
2773 distributed separately (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
2774 + modify configure script to add "-g" and/or "-O3" to ADAFLAGS if the
2775 CFLAGS for the build has these options.
2776 + amend change from 20070324, to not add 1 to the result of getmaxx
2777 and getmaxy in the Ada binding (report by Nicolas Boulenguez for
2778 thread in comp.lang.ada).
2779 + build-fix Ada95/samples for gnat 4.5
2780 + spelling fixes for Ada95/samples/explain.txt
2781 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
2782 + add item in Trace_Attribute_Set corresponding to TRACE_ATTRS.
2783 + add workaround for binding to set_field_type(), which uses varargs.
2784 The original binding from 990220 relied on the prevalent
2785 implementation of varargs which did not support or need va_copy().
2786 + add dependency on gen/Makefile.in needed for *-panels.ads
2787 + add Library_Options to library.gpr
2788 + add Languages to library.gpr, for gprbuild
2791 + revert changes to limit-checks from 20110122 (Debian #616711).
2792 > minor type-cleanup of Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
2793 + corrected a minor sign error in a field of Low_Level_Field_Type, to
2795 + replaced C_Int by Curses_Bool as return type for some callbacks, see
2797 + modify samples/sample-explain.adb to provide explicit message when
2798 explain.txt is not found.
2801 + improve makefiles for Ada95 tree (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
2802 + fix an off-by-one error in _nc_slk_initialize() from 20100605 fixes
2803 for compiler warnings (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
2804 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to declare unused bits in generated layouts,
2805 needed to compile when chtype is 64-bits using gnat 4.4.5
2807 20110226 5.8 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2810 + update release notes, for 5.8.
2811 + regenerated html manpages.
2812 + change open() in _nc_read_file_entry() to fopen() for consistency
2814 + modify misc/run_tic.in to create parent directory, in case this is
2815 a new install of hashed database.
2816 + fix typo in Ada95/mk-1st.awk which causes error with original awk.
2819 + configure script rpath fixes from xterm #269.
2820 + workaround for cygwin's non-functional features.h, to force ncurses'
2821 configure script to define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED when building
2822 wide-character configuration.
2823 + build-fix in run_tic.sh for OS/2 EMX install
2824 + add cons25-debian entry (patch by Brian M Carlson, Debian #607662).
2827 + regenerated html manpages.
2828 + use _tracef() in show_where() function of tic, to work correctly with
2829 special case of trace configuration.
2832 + add xterm-utf8 entry as a demo of the U8 feature -TD
2833 + add U8 feature to denote entries for terminal emulators which do not
2834 support VT100 SI/SO when processing UTF-8 encoding -TD
2835 + improve the NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS feature by adding a check for an
2836 extended terminfo capability U8 (prompted by mailing list
2840 + start documenting interface changes for upcoming 5.8 release.
2841 + correct limit-checks in derwin().
2842 + correct limit-checks in newwin(), to ensure that windows have nonzero
2843 size (report by Garrett Cooper).
2844 + fix a missing "weak" declaration for pthread_kill (patch by Nicholas
2846 + improve documentation of KEY_ENTER in curs_getch.3x manpage (prompted
2847 by discussion with Kevin Martin).
2850 + modify Ada95/configure script to make the --with-curses-dir option
2851 work without requiring the --with-ncurses option.
2852 + modify test programs to allow them to be built with NetBSD curses.
2853 + document thick- and double-line symbols in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
2854 + document WACS_xxx constants in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
2855 + fix some warnings for clang 2.6 "--analyze"
2856 + modify Ada95 makefiles to make html-documentation with the project
2857 file configuration if that is used.
2858 + update config.guess, config.sub
2861 + regenerated html manpages.
2862 + minor fixes to enable lint when trace is not enabled, e.g., with
2864 + fix typo in man/default_colors.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
2865 + update ncurses/llib-lncurses*
2868 + fix remaining strict compiler warnings in ncurses library ABI=5,
2869 except those dealing with function pointers, etc.
2872 + modify nc_tparm.h, adding guards against repeated inclusion, and
2873 allowing TPARM_ARG to be overridden.
2874 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
2877 + suppress ncv in screen entry, allowing underline (patch by Alejandro
2879 + also suppress ncv in konsole-base -TD
2880 + fixes in wins_nwstr() and related functions to ensure that special
2881 characters, i.e., control characters are handled properly with the
2882 wide-character configuration.
2883 + correct a comparison in wins_nwstr() (Redhat #661506).
2884 + correct help-messages in some of the test-programs, which still
2885 referred to quitting with 'q'.
2888 + add special case to _nc_infotocap() to recognize the setaf/setab
2889 strings from xterm+256color and xterm+88color, and provide a reduced
2890 version which works with termcap.
2891 + remove obsolete emacs "Local Variables" section from documentation
2892 (request by Sven Joachim).
2893 + update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html
2894 (report by Sven Joachim).
2897 + modify test/configure and test/Makefile.in to handle this special
2898 case of building within a build-tree (Debian #34182):
2899 mkdir -p build && cd build && ../test/configure && make
2902 + miscellaneous build-fixes for Ada95 and test-directories when built
2904 + use VPATH in makefiles to simplify out-of-tree builds (Debian #34182).
2905 + fix typo in rmso for tek4106 entry -Goran Weinholt
2908 + improve checks in test/configure for X libraries, from xterm #267
2910 + modify test/configure to allow it to use the build-tree's libraries
2911 e.g., when using that to configure the test-programs without the
2912 rpath feature (request by Sven Joachim).
2913 + repurpose "gnome" terminfo entries as "vte", retaining "gnome" items
2914 for compatibility, but generally deprecating those since the VTE
2915 library is what actually defines the behavior of "gnome", etc.,
2919 + compiler warning fixes for test programs.
2920 + various build-fixes for test-programs with pdcurses.
2921 + updated configure checks for X packages in test/configure from xterm
2923 + add configure check to gnatmake, to accommodate cygwin.
2926 + correct list of sub-directories needed in Ada95 tree for building as
2928 + modify scripts in test-directory to improve builds as a separate
2932 + correct parsing of relative tab-stops in tabs program (report by
2934 + adjust configure script so that "t" is not added to library suffix
2935 when weak-symbols are used, allowing the pthread configuration to
2936 more closely match the non-thread naming (report by Werner Fink).
2937 + modify configure check for tic program, used for fallbacks, to a
2938 warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use additonal
2939 scripts to bootstrap the fallbacks code using tic from the build
2940 tree (report by Werner Fink).
2941 + fix several places in configure script using ${variable-value} form.
2942 + modify configure macro CF_LDFLAGS_STATIC to accommodate some loaders
2943 which do not support selectively linking against static libraries
2944 (report by John P. Hartmann)
2945 + fix an unescaped dash in man/tset.1 (report by Sven Joachim).
2948 + correct comparison used for setting 16-colors in linux-16color
2949 entry (Novell #644831) -TD
2950 + improve linux-16color entry, using "dim" for color-8 which makes it
2951 gray rather than black like color-0 -TD
2952 + drop misc/ncu-indent and misc/jpf-indent; they are provided by an
2953 external package "cindent".
2956 + improve linkages in html manpages, adding references to the newer
2957 pages, e.g., *_variables, curs_sp_funcs, curs_threads.
2958 + add checks in tic for inconsistent cursor-movement controls, and for
2959 inconsistent printer-controls.
2960 + fill in no-parameter forms of cursor-movement where a parameterized
2961 form is available -TD
2962 + fill in missing cursor controls where the form of the controls is
2964 + fix inconsistent punctuation in form_variables manpage (patch by
2966 + add parameterized cursor-controls to linux-basic (report by Dae) -TD
2967 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
2968 + document how to build 32-bit libraries in README.MinGW
2969 + fixes to filename computation in mk-dlls.sh.in
2970 + use POSIX locale in mk-dlls.sh.in rather than en_US (report by Sven
2972 + add a check in mk-dlls.sh.in to obtain the size of a pointer to
2973 distinguish between 32-bit and 64-bit hosts. The result is stored
2977 + add "XT" capability to entries for terminals that support both
2978 xterm-style mouse- and title-controls, for "screen" which
2979 special-cases TERM beginning with "xterm" or "rxvt" -TD
2980 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
2981 + use 64-Bit MinGW toolchain (recommended package from TDM, see
2983 + support pthreads when using the TDM MinGW toolchain
2986 + regenerated html manpages.
2987 + minor fixes for symlinks to curs_legacy.3x and curs_slk.3x manpages.
2988 + add manpage for sp-funcs.
2989 + add sp-funcs to test/listused.sh, for documentation aids.
2992 + add manpages for summarizing public variables of curses-, terminfo-
2994 + minor fixes to manpages for consistency (patch by Jason McIntyre).
2995 + modify tic's -I/-C dump to reformat acsc strings into canonical form
2996 (sorted, unique mapping) (cf: 971004).
2997 + add configure check for pthread_kill(), needed for some old
3001 + add configure option --without-tests, to suppress building test
3002 programs (request by Frederic L W Meunier).
3005 + modify nsterm, xnuppc and tek4115 to make sgr/sgr0 consistent -TD
3006 + add check in terminfo source-reader to provide more informative
3007 message when someone attempts to run tic on a compiled terminal
3008 description (prompted by Debian #593920).
3009 + note in infotocap and captoinfo manpages that they read terminal
3010 descriptions from text-files (Debian #593920).
3011 + improve acsc string for vt52, show arrow keys (patch by Benjamin
3015 + document in manpages that "mv" functions first use wmove() to check
3016 the window pointer and whether the position lies within the window
3017 (suggested by Poul-Henning Kamp).
3018 + fixes to curs_color.3x, curs_kernel.3x and wresize.3x manpages (patch
3019 by Tim van der Molen).
3020 + modify configure script to transform library names for tic- and
3021 tinfo-libraries so that those build properly with Mac OS X shared
3022 library configuration.
3023 + modify configure script to ensure that it removes conftest.dSYM
3024 directory leftover on checks with Mac OS X.
3025 + modify configure script to cleanup after check for symbolic links.
3028 + correct a typo in mk-1st.awk (patch by Gabriele Balducci)
3030 + improve configure checks for location of tic and infocmp programs
3031 used for installing database and for generating fallback data,
3032 e.g., for cross-compiling.
3033 + add Markus Kuhn's wcwidth function for compiling MinGW
3034 + add special case to CF_REGEX for cross-compiling to MinGW target.
3037 + modify initialization check for win32con driver to eliminate need for
3038 special case for TERM "unknown", using terminal database if available
3039 (prompted by discussion with Roumen Petrov).
3040 + for MinGW port, ensure that terminal driver is setup if tgetent()
3041 is called (patch by Roumen Petrov).
3042 + document tabs "-0" and "-8" options in manpage.
3043 + fix Debian "lintian" issues with manpages reported in
3044 http://lintian.debian.org/full/csmall@debian.org.html#ncurses
3047 + add a check in tic for missing set_tab if clear_all_tabs given.
3048 + improve use of symbolic links in makefiles by using "-f" option if
3049 it is supported, to eliminate temporary removal of the target
3050 (prompted by http://www.t2-project.org/packages/ncurses.html)
3051 + minor improvement to test/ncurses.c, reset color pairs in 'd' test
3052 after exit from 'm' main-menu command.
3053 + improved ncu-indent, from mawk changes, allows more than one of
3054 GCC_NORETURN, GCC_PRINTFLIKE and GCC_SCANFLIKE on a single line.
3057 + add hard-reset for rs2 to wsvt25 to help ensure that reset ends
3058 the alternate character set (patch by Nicholas Marriott)
3059 + remove tar-copy.sh and related configure/Makefile chunks, since the
3060 Ada95 binding is now installed using rules in Ada95/src.
3063 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
3064 + add/use configure check to turn on project rules for Ada95/src.
3065 + revert the vfork change from 20100130, since it does not work.
3068 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
3069 + old gnatmake (3.15) does not produce libraries using project-file;
3070 work around by adding script to generate alternate makefile.
3073 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
3074 + add configure --with-ada-sharedlib option, for the test_make rule.
3075 + move Ada95-related logic into aclocal.m4, since additional checks
3076 will be needed to distinguish old/new implementations of gnat.
3079 + start integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95 tree
3080 + add test_make / test_clean / test_install rules in Ada95/src
3081 + change install-path for adainclude directory to /usr/share/ada (was
3083 + update Ada95/configure.
3084 + add mlterm+256color entry, for mlterm 3.0.0 -TD
3085 + modify test/configure to use macros to ensure consistent order
3086 of updating LIBS variable.
3089 + change search order of options for Solaris in CF_SHARED_OPTS, to
3090 work with 64-bit compiles.
3091 + correct quoting of assignment in CF_SHARED_OPTS case for aix
3095 + regenerated html documentation.
3096 + modify test/configure to support pkg-config for checking X libraries
3098 + add/use configure macro CF_ADD_LIB to force consistency of
3099 assignments to $LIBS, etc.
3100 + fix configure script for combining --with-pthread
3101 and --enable-weak-symbols options.
3104 + correct cross-compiling configure check for CF_MKSTEMP macro, by
3105 adding a check cache variable set by AC_CHECK_FUNC (report by
3107 + simplify include-dependencies of make_hash and make_keys, to reduce
3108 the need for setting BUILD_CPPFLAGS in cross-compiling when the
3109 build- and target-machines differ.
3110 + repair broken-linker configuration by restoring a definition of SP
3111 variable to curses.priv.h, and adjusting for cases where sp-funcs
3113 + improve configure macro CF_AR_FLAGS, allowing ARFLAGS environment
3114 variable to override (prompted by report by Pablo Cazallas).
3117 + add configure option --enable-pthreads-eintr to control whether the
3118 new EINTR feature is enabled.
3119 + modify logic in pthread configuration to allow EINTR to interrupt
3120 a read operation in wgetch() (Novell #540571, patch by Werner Fink).
3121 + drop mkdirs.sh, use "mkdir -p".
3122 + add configure option --disable-libtool-version, to use the
3123 "-version-number" feature which was added in libtool 1.5 (report by
3124 Peter Haering). The default value for the option uses the newer
3125 feature, which makes libraries generated using libtool compatible
3126 with the standard builds of ncurses.
3127 + updated test/configure to match configure script macros.
3128 + fixes for configure script from lynx changes:
3129 + improve CF_FIND_LINKAGE logic for the case where a function is
3130 found in predefined libraries.
3131 + revert part of change to CF_HEADER (cf: 20100424)
3134 + correct limit-check in wredrawln, accounting for begy/begx values
3135 (patch by David Benjamin).
3136 + fix most compiler warnings from clang.
3137 + amend build-fix for OpenSolaris, to ensure that a system header is
3138 included in curses.h before testing feature symbols, since they
3139 may be defined by that route.
3142 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
3143 + modify configure macro CF_HEADER_PATH to not look for variations in
3144 the predefined include directories.
3145 + improve configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GCC_WARNINGS to work
3146 with gcc 4.x's c89 alias, which gives warning messages for cases
3147 where older versions would produce an error.
3150 + modify _nc_capcmp() to work with cancelled strings.
3151 + correct translation of "^" in _nc_infotocap(), used to transform
3152 terminfo to termcap strings
3153 + add configure --disable-rpath-hack, to allow disabling the feature
3154 which adds rpath options for libraries in unusual places.
3155 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by checking if the rpath option for a given
3156 directory was already added.
3157 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by using ldd to provide a standard list of
3158 directories (which will be ignored).
3161 + improve win_driver.c handling of mouse:
3162 + discard motion events
3163 + avoid calling _nc_timed_wait when there is a mouse event
3164 + handle 4th and "rightmost" buttons.
3165 + quote substitutions in CF_RPATH_HACK_2 configure macro, needed for
3166 cases where there are embedded blanks in the rpath option.
3169 + add configure check for exctags vs ctags, to work around pkgsrc.
3170 + simplify logic in _nc_get_screensize() to make it easier to see how
3171 environment variables may override system- and terminfo-values
3172 (prompted by discussion with Igor Bujna).
3173 + make debug-traces for COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER less verbose.
3174 + improve handling of color-pairs embedded in attributes for the
3175 extended-colors configuration.
3176 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to build link_test with sp-funcs.
3177 + build-fixes for OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11, for wide-character
3178 configuration as well as for rpath feature in *-config scripts.
3181 + refactor CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro, making CF_RPATH_HACK more
3183 + improve configure CF_REGEX, similar fixes.
3184 + improve configure CF_FIND_LINKAGE, adding add check between system
3185 (default) and explicit paths, where we can find the entrypoint in the
3187 + add check if Gpm_Open() returns a -2, e.g., for "xterm". This is
3188 normally suppressed but can be overridden using $NCURSES_GPM_TERMS.
3189 Ensure that Gpm_Close() is called in this case.
3192 + rename atari and st52 terminfo entries to atari-old, st52-old, use
3193 newer entries from FreeMiNT by Guido Flohr (from patch/report by Alan
3197 + modify install-rule for manpages so that *-config manpages will
3198 install when building with --srcdir (report by Sven Joachim).
3199 + modify CF_DISABLE_LEAKS configure macro so that the --enable-leaks
3200 option is not the same as --disable-leaks (GenToo #305889).
3201 + modify #define's for build-compiler to suppress cchar_t symbol from
3202 compile of make_hash and make_keys, improving cross-compilation of
3203 ncursesw (report by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
3204 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to replace all occurrences of
3205 TPUT in tput.1's manpage (Debian #573597, report/analysis by Anders
3209 + generate manpages for the *-config scripts, adapted from help2man
3210 (suggested by Sven Joachim).
3211 + use va_copy() in _nc_printf_string() to avoid conflicting use of
3212 va_list value in _nc_printf_length() (report by Wim Lewis).
3215 + add Ada95/configure script, to use in tar-file created by
3217 + fix typo in wresize.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
3218 + modify screen-bce.XXX entries to exclude ech, since screen's color
3219 model does not clear with color for that feature -TD
3222 + add make-tar.sh scripts to Ada95 and test subdirectories to help with
3223 making those separately distributable.
3224 + build-fix for static libraries without dlsym (Debian #556378).
3225 + fix a syntax error in man/form_field_opts.3x (patch by Ingo
3229 + add several screen-bce.XXX entries -TD
3232 + update mrxvt terminfo entry -TD
3233 + modify win_driver.c to support mouse single-clicks.
3234 + correct name for termlib in ncurses*-config, e.g., if it is renamed
3235 to provide a single file for ncurses/ncursesw libraries (patch by
3239 + use vfork in test/ditto.c if available (request by Mike Frysinger).
3240 + miscellaneous cleanup of manpages.
3241 + fix typo in curs_bkgd.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
3242 + build-fix for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
3245 + for term-driver configuration, ensure that the driver pointer is
3246 initialized in setupterm so that terminfo/termcap programs work.
3247 + amend fix for Debian #542031 to ensure that wattrset() returns only
3248 OK or ERR, rather than the attribute value (report by Miroslav
3250 + reorder WINDOWLIST to put WINDOW data after SCREEN pointer, making
3251 _nc_screen_of() compatible between normal/wide libraries again (patch
3252 by Miroslav Lichvar)
3253 + review/fix include-dependencies in modules files (report by Miroslav
3257 + modify win_driver.c to initialize acs_map for win32 console, so
3258 that line-drawing works.
3259 + modify win_driver.c to initialize TERMINAL struct so that programs
3260 such as test/lrtest.c and test/ncurses.c which test string
3261 capabilities can run.
3262 + modify term-driver modules to eliminate forward-reference
3266 + modify configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., to use CF_ADD_CFLAGS
3267 consistently to add new -D's while removing duplicates.
3268 + modify a few configure macros to consistently put new options
3269 before older in the list.
3270 + add tiparm(), based on review of X/Open Curses Issue 7.
3271 + minor documentation cleanup.
3272 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3273 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
3274 (caveat - its maintainer put 2010 copyright date on files dated 2009)
3277 + minor improvement to tic's checking of similar SGR's to allow for the
3278 most common case of SGR 0.
3279 + modify getmouse() to act as its documentation implied, returning on
3280 each call the preceding event until none are left. When no more
3281 events remain, it will return ERR.
3284 + change order of lookup in progs/tput.c, looking for terminfo data
3285 first. This fixes a confusion between termcap "sg" and terminfo
3286 "sgr" or "sgr0", originally from 990123 changes, but exposed by
3287 20091114 fixes for hashing. With this change, only "dl" and "ed" are
3288 ambiguous (Mandriva #56272).
3291 + add bterm terminfo entry, based on bogl 0.1.18 -TD
3292 + minor fix to rxvt+pcfkeys terminfo entry -TD
3293 + build-fixes for Ada95 tree for gnat 4.4 "style".
3296 + remove old check in mvderwin() which prevented moving a derived
3297 window whose origin happened to coincide with its parent's origin
3298 (report by Katarina Machalkova).
3299 + improve test/ncurses.c to put mouse droppings in the proper window.
3300 + update minix terminfo entry -TD
3301 + add bw (auto-left-margin) to nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler)
3304 + correct transfer of multicolumn characters in multirow
3305 field_buffer(), which stopped at the end of the first row due to
3306 filling of unused entries in a cchar_t array with nulls.
3307 + updated nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler, Emanuele Giaquinta)
3308 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to show wide-character
3310 + use strdup() in set_menu_mark(), restore .marklen struct member on
3312 + eliminate clause 3 from the UCB copyrights in read_termcap.c and
3314 ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
3315 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
3316 + replace a malloc in tic.c with strdup, checking for failure (patch by
3318 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3319 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
3322 + correct layout of working window used to extract data in
3323 wide-character configured by set_field_buffer (patch by Rafael
3325 + improve some limit-checks related to filename length in reading and
3326 writing terminfo entries.
3327 + ensure that filename is always filled in when attempting to read
3328 a terminfo entry, so that infocmp can report the filename (patch
3329 by Nicholas Marriott).
3332 + modify mk-1st.awk to allow tinfo library to be built when term-driver
3334 + add error-check to configure script to ensure that sp-funcs is
3335 enabled if term-driver is, since some internal interfaces rely upon
3339 + fix case where progs/tput is used while sp-funcs is configure; this
3340 requires save/restore of out-character function from _nc_prescreen
3341 rather than the SCREEN structure (report by Charles Wilson).
3342 + fix typo in man/curs_trace.3x which caused incorrect symbolic links
3343 + improved configure macros CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_PROG_LINT.
3347 + updated man/curs_trace.3x
3348 + limit hashing for termcap-names to 2-characters (Ubuntu #481740).
3349 + change a variable name in lib_newwin.c to make it clearer which
3350 value is being freed on error (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
3353 + improve test/ncurses.c color-cycling test by reusing attribute-
3354 and color-cycling logic from the video-attributes screen.
3355 + add ifdef'd with NCURSES_INTEROP_FUNCS experimental bindings in form
3356 library which help make it compatible with interop applications
3357 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3358 + add configure option --enable-interop, for integrating changes
3359 for generic/interop support to form-library by Juergen Pfeifer
3362 + modify use of $CC environment variable which is defined by X/Open
3363 as a curses feature, to ignore it if it is not a single character
3364 (prompted by discussion with Benjamin C W Sittler).
3365 + add START_TRACE in slk_init
3366 + fix a regression in _nc_ripoffline which made test/ncurses.c not show
3367 soft-keys, broken in 20090927 merging.
3368 + change initialization of "hidden" flag for soft-keys from true to
3369 false, broken in 20090704 merging (Ubuntu #464274).
3370 + update nsterm entries (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler, prompted by
3371 discussion with Fabian Groffen in GenToo #206201).
3372 + add test/xterm-256color.dat
3375 + quiet some pedantic gcc warnings.
3376 + modify _nc_wgetch() to check for a -1 in the fifo, e.g., after a
3377 SIGWINCH, and discard that value, to avoid confusing application
3378 (patch by Eygene Ryabinkin, FreeBSD #136223).
3381 + modify handling of $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to use only the first item in
3382 a possibly colon-separated list (Debian #550716).
3385 + supply a null-terminator to buffer in _nc_viswibuf().
3386 + fix a sign-extension bug in unget_wch() (report by Mike Gran).
3387 + minor fixes to error-returns in default function for tputs, as well
3391 + add WACS_xxx definitions to wide-character configuration for thick-
3392 and double-lines (discussion with Slava Zanko).
3393 + remove unnecessary kcan assignment to ^C from putty (Sven Joachim)
3394 + add ccc and initc capabilities to xterm-16color -TD
3395 > patch by Benjamin C W Sittler:
3397 + correct initc capability of linux-c-nc end-of-range
3398 + similar change for dg+ccc and dgunix+ccc
3401 + move leak-checking for comp_captab.c into _nc_leaks_tinfo() since
3402 that module since 20090711 is in libtinfo.
3403 + add configure option --enable-term-driver, to allow compiling with
3404 terminal-driver. That is used in MinGW port, and (being somewhat
3405 more complicated) is an experimental alternative to the conventional
3406 termlib internals. Currently, it requires the sp-funcs feature to
3408 + completed integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer in ncurses
3409 library (some work remains for forms library).
3412 + document return code from define_key (report by Mike Gran).
3413 + make some symbolic links in the terminfo directory-tree shorter
3414 (patch by Daniel Jacobowitz, forwarded by Sven Joachim).).
3415 + fix some groff warnings in terminfo.5, etc., from recent Debian
3417 + change ncv and op capabilities in sun-color terminfo entry to match
3418 Sun's entry for this (report by Laszlo Peter).
3419 + improve interix smso terminfo capability by using reverse rather than
3420 bold (report by Kristof Zelechovski).
3423 + add some test programs (and make these use the same special keys
3424 by sharing linedata.h functions):
3427 test/test_addchstr.c
3428 test/test_add_wchstr.c
3429 + correct internal _nc_insert_ch() to use _nc_insert_wch() when
3430 inserting wide characters, since the wins_wch() function that it used
3431 did not update the cursor position (report by Ciprian Craciun).
3434 + fix typo s/is_timeout/is_notimeout/ which made "man is_notimeout" not
3436 + add null-pointer checks to other opaque-functions.
3437 + add is_pad() and is_subwin() functions for opaque access to WINDOW
3438 (discussion with Mark Dickinson).
3439 + correct merge to lib_newterm.c, which broke when sp-funcs was
3443 + build-fix for building outside source-tree (report by Sven Joachim).
3444 + fix Debian lintian warning for man/tabs.1 by making section number
3445 agree with file-suffix (report by Sven Joachim).
3446 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3449 + workaround for bug in g++ 4.1-4.4 warnings for wattrset() macro on
3450 amd64 (Debian #542031).
3451 + fix typo in curs_mouse.3x (Debian #429198).
3454 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3457 + correct use of terminfo capabilities for initializing soft-keys,
3458 broken in 20090510 merging.
3459 + modify wgetch() to ensure it checks SIGWINCH when it gets an error
3460 in non-blocking mode (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
3461 + use PATH_SEPARATOR symbol when substituting into run_tic.sh, to
3462 help with builds on non-Unix platforms such as OS/2 EMX.
3463 + modify scripting for misc/run_tic.sh to test configure script's
3464 $cross_compiling variable directly rather than comparing host/build
3465 compiler names (prompted by comment in GenToo #249363).
3466 + fix configure script option --with-database, which was coded as an
3468 + build-fixes for --srcdir (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
3471 + separate _nc_find_entry() and _nc_find_type_entry() from
3472 implementation details of hash function.
3475 + add tabs.1 to man/man_db.renames
3476 + modify lib_addch.c to compensate for removal of wide-character test
3477 from unctrl() in 20090704 (Debian #539735).
3480 + improve discussion in INSTALL for use of system's tic/infocmp for
3481 cross-compiling and building fallbacks.
3482 + modify test/demo_termcap.c to correspond better to options in
3483 test/demo_terminfo.c
3484 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3485 + fix logic for 'V' in test/ncurses.c tests f/F.
3488 + correct logic in tigetnum(), which caused tput program to treat all
3489 string capabilities as numeric (report by Rajeev V Pillai,
3493 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3496 + fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks() in lib_slk.c, from
3498 + modify _nc_find_type_entry() to use hashing.
3499 + make CCHARW_MAX value configurable, noting that changing this would
3500 change the size of cchar_t, and would be ABI-incompatible.
3501 + modify test-programs, e.g,. test/view.c, to address subtle
3502 differences between Tru64/Solaris and HPUX/AIX getcchar() return
3504 + modify length returned by getcchar() to count the trailing null
3505 which is documented in X/Open (cf: 20020427).
3506 + fixes for test programs to build/work on HPUX and AIX, etc.
3509 + improve performance of tigetstr, etc., by using hashing code from tic.
3510 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking.
3511 + add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with demo_termcap
3514 + remove wide-character checks from unctrl() (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
3515 + revise wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to eliminate dependency on
3517 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3520 + update llib-lncurses[wt] to use sp-funcs.
3521 + various code-fixes to build/work with --disable-macros configure
3523 + add several new files from Juergen Pfeifer which will be used when
3524 integration of "sp-funcs" is complete. This includes a port to
3528 + move definition for NCURSES_WRAPPED_VAR back to ncurses_dll.h, to
3529 make includes of term.h without curses.h work (report by "Nix").
3530 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3533 + fix a regression in lib_tputs.c, from ongoing merges.
3536 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3539 + fix an infinite recursion when adding a legacy-coding 8-bit value
3540 using insch() (report by Clemens Ladisch).
3541 + free home-terminfo string in del_curterm() (patch by Dan Weber).
3542 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3545 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3548 + work around antique BSD game's manipulation of stdscr, etc., versus
3549 SCREEN's copy of the pointer (Debian #528411).
3550 + add a cast to wattrset macro to avoid compiler warning when comparing
3551 its result against ERR (adapted from patch by Matt Kraii, Debian
3555 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3558 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3559 + add vwmterm terminfo entry (patch by Bryan Christ).
3562 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3565 + build fix for _nc_free_and_exit() change in 20090418 (report by
3569 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3572 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3573 This change finishes merging for menu and panel libraries, does
3574 part of the form library.
3577 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
3578 Darwin (report by Nelson Beebe).
3581 + extend ansi.sys pfkey capability from kf1-kf10 to kf1-kf48, moving
3582 function key definitions from emx-base for consistency -TD
3583 + correct missing final 'p' in pfkey capability of ansi.sys-old (report
3584 by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo).
3585 + improve test/ncurses.c 'F' test, show combining characters in color.
3586 + quiet a false report by cppcheck in c++/cursesw.cc by eliminating
3587 a temporary variable.
3588 + use _nc_doalloc() rather than realloc() in a few places in ncurses
3589 library to avoid leak in out-of-memory condition (reports by William
3590 Egert and Martin Ettl based on cppcheck tool).
3591 + add --with-ncurses-wrap-prefix option to test/configure (discussion
3592 with Charles Wilson).
3593 + use ncurses*-config scripts if available for test/configure.
3594 + update test/aclocal.m4 and test/configure
3595 > patches by Charles Wilson:
3596 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL configure check to allow unreleased libtool
3597 version numbers (e.g. which include alphabetic chars, as well as
3598 digits, after the final '.').
3599 + improve use of -no-undefined option for libtool by setting an
3600 intermediate variable LT_UNDEF in the configure script, and then
3601 using that in the libtool link-commands.
3602 + fix an missing use of NCURSES_PUBLIC_VAR() in tinfo/MKcodes.awk
3603 from 20090321 changes.
3604 + improve mk-1st.awk script by writing separate cases for the
3605 LIBTOOL_LINK command, depending on which library (ncurses, ticlib,
3606 termlib) is to be linked.
3607 + modify configure.in to allow broken-linker configurations, not just
3608 enable-reentrant, to set public wrap prefix.
3611 + add TICS_LIST and SHLIB_LIST to allow libtool 2.2.6 on Cygwin to
3612 build with tic and term libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
3613 + add -no-undefined option to libtool for Cygwin, MinGW, U/Win and AIX
3614 (report by Charles Wilson).
3615 + fix definition for c++/Makefile.in's SHLIB_LIST, which did not list
3616 the form, menu or panel libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
3617 + add configure option --with-wrap-prefix to allow setting the prefix
3618 for functions used to wrap global variables to something other than
3619 "_nc_" (discussion with Charles Wilson).
3622 + modify scripts to generate ncurses*-config and pc-files to add
3623 dependency for tinfo library (patch by Charles Wilson).
3624 + improve comparison of program-names when checking for linked flavors
3625 such as "reset" by ignoring the executable suffix (reports by Charles
3626 Wilson, Samuel Thibault and Cedric Bretaudeau on Cygwin mailing
3628 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
3629 Solaris 10, since gcc is confused by absence of static libc, and
3630 does not switch back to dynamic mode before finishing the libraries
3631 (reports by Joel Bertrand, Alan Pae).
3632 + minor fixes to Intel compiler warning checks in configure script.
3633 + modify _nc_leaks_tinfo() so leak-checking in test/railroad.c works.
3634 + modify set_curterm() to make broken-linker configuration work with
3635 changes from 20090228 (report by Charles Wilson).
3638 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3639 + modify declaration of cur_term when broken-linker is used, but
3640 enable-reentrant is not, to match pre-5.7 (report by Charles Wilson).
3643 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3646 + add configure script --enable-sp-funcs to enable the new set of
3648 + start integrating patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
3649 + add extended functions which specify the SCREEN pointer for several
3650 curses functions which use the global SP (these are incomplete;
3651 some internals work is needed to complete these).
3652 + add special cases to configure script for MinGW port.
3655 + update several configure macros from lynx changes
3656 + append (not prepend) to CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS
3657 + change variable from PATHSEP to PATH_SEPARATOR
3658 + improve install-rules for pc-files (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
3659 + make it work with $DESTDIR
3660 + create the pkg-config library directory if needed.
3663 + modify init_pair() to allow caller to create extra color pairs beyond
3664 the color_pairs limit, which use default colors (request by Emanuele
3666 + add misc/terminfo.tmp and misc/*.pc to "sources" rule.
3667 + fix typo "==" where "=" is needed in ncurses-config.in and
3668 gen-pkgconfig.in files (Debian #512161).
3671 + add -shared option to MK_SHARED_LIB when -Bsharable is used, for
3672 *BSD's, without which "main" might be one of the shared library's
3673 dependencies (report/analysis by Ken Dickey).
3674 + modify waddch_literal(), updating line-pointer after a multicolumn
3675 character is found to not fit on the current row, and wrapping is
3676 done. Since the line-pointer was not updated, the wrapped
3677 multicolumn character was written to the beginning of the current row
3678 (cf: 20041023, reported by "Nick" regarding problem with ncmpc
3679 http://musicpd.org/mantis/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1930).
3682 + add screen.Eterm terminfo entry (GenToo #124887) -TD
3683 + modify adacurses-config to look for ".ali" files in the adalib
3685 + correct install for Ada95, which omitted libAdaCurses.a used in
3687 + change install for adacurses-config to provide additional flavors
3688 such as adacursesw-config, for ncursesw (GenToo #167849).
3691 + remove undeveloped feature in ncurses-config.in for setting
3693 + recent change to ncurses-config.in did not take into account the
3694 --disable-overwrite option, which sets $includedir to the
3695 subdirectory and using just that for a -I option does not work - fix
3696 (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
3699 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to eliminate a dependency on rpath when
3700 deciding whether to add $LIBS to --libs output; that should be shown
3701 for the ncurses and tinfo libraries without taking rpath into
3703 + fix an overlooked change from $AR_OPTS to $ARFLAGS in mk-1st.awk,
3704 used in static libraries (report by Marty Jack).
3707 + add a configure-time check to pick a suitable value for
3708 CC_SHARED_OPTS for Solaris (report by Dagobert Michelsen).
3709 + add configure --with-pkg-config and --enable-pc-files options, along
3710 with misc/gen-pkgconfig.in which can be used to generate ".pc" files
3711 for pkg-config (request by Jan Engelhardt).
3712 + use $includedir symbol in misc/ncurses-config.in, add --includedir
3714 + change makefiles to use $ARFLAGS rather than $AR_OPTS, provide a
3715 configure check to detect whether a "-" is needed before "ar"
3717 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3718 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
3721 + modify mk-1st.awk to work with extra categories for tinfo library.
3722 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries with gcc
3723 on AIX 5 or 6 (adapted from patch by Lital Natan).
3726 + modify to omit the opaque-functions from lib_gen.o when
3727 --disable-ext-funcs is used.
3728 + add test/clip_printw.c to illustrate how to use printw without
3730 + modify ncurses 'F' test to demo wborder_set() with colored lines.
3731 + modify ncurses 'f' test to demo wborder() with colored lines.
3734 + add check for failure to open hashed-database needed for db4.6
3736 + corrected --without-manpages option; previous change only suppressed
3737 the auxiliary rules install.man and uninstall.man
3738 + add case for FreeMINT to configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE (patch from
3740 + fixes from NetBSD port at
3741 http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches
3742 patch-ac (build-fix for DragonFly)
3743 patch-ae (use INSTALL_SCRIPT for installing misc/ncurses*-config).
3744 + improve configure script macros CF_HEADER_PATH and CF_LIBRARY_PATH
3745 by adding CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, LIBS values to the
3747 + correct title string for keybound manpage (patch by Frederic Culot,
3748 OpenBSD documentation/6019),
3751 + move del_curterm() call from _nc_freeall() to _nc_leaks_tinfo() to
3752 work for progs/clear, progs/tabs, etc.
3753 + correct buffer-size after internal resizing of wide-character
3754 set_field_buffer(), broken in 20081018 changes (report by Mike Gran).
3755 + add "-i" option to test/filter.c to tell it to use initscr() rather
3756 than newterm(), to investigate report on comp.unix.programmer that
3757 ncurses would clear the screen in that case (it does not - the issue
3758 was xterm's alternate screen feature).
3759 + add check in mouse-driver to disable connection if GPM returns a
3760 zero, indicating that the connection is closed (Debian #506717,
3761 adapted from patch by Samuel Thibault).
3764 + improve a workaround in adding wide-characters, when a control
3765 character is found. The library (cf: 20040207) uses unctrl() to
3766 obtain a printable version of the control character, but was not
3767 passing color or video attributes.
3768 + improve test/ncurses.c 'a' test, using unctrl() more consistently to
3769 display meta-characters.
3770 + turn on _XOPEN_CURSES definition in curses.h
3771 + add eterm-color entry (report by Vincent Lefevre) -TD
3772 + correct use of key_name() in test/ncurses.c 'A' test, which only
3773 displays wide-characters, not key-codes since 20070612 (report by
3777 + change _nc_has_mouse() to has_mouse(), reflect its use in C++ and
3778 Ada95 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3779 + document in TO-DO an issue with Cygwin's package for GNAT (report
3781 + improve error-checking of command-line options in "tabs" program.
3784 + change several terminfo entries to make consistent use of ANSI
3786 + add "tabs" program (prompted by Debian #502260).
3787 + add configure --without-manpages option (request by Mike Frysinger).
3789 20081102 5.7 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3792 + add a manpage to discuss memory leaks.
3793 + add support for shared libraries for QNX (other than libtool, which
3794 does not work well on that platform).
3795 + build-fix for QNX C++ binding.
3798 + build-fixes for OS/2 EMX.
3799 + modify form library to accept control characters such as newline
3800 in set_field_buffer(), which is compatible with Solaris (report by
3802 + modify configure script to assume --without-hashed-db when
3803 --disable-database is used.
3804 + add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating source-files
3805 to force earlier exit if the build environment fails unexpectedly
3806 (prompted by patch by Adrian Bunk).
3807 + change configure script to use CF_UTF8_LIB, improved variant of
3811 + add teraterm4.59 terminfo entry, use that as primary teraterm entry, rename
3812 original to teraterm2.3 -TD
3813 + update "gnome" terminfo to 2.22.3 -TD
3814 + update "konsole" terminfo to 1.6.6, needs today's fix for tic -TD
3815 + add "aterm" terminfo -TD
3816 + add "linux2.6.26" terminfo -TD
3817 + add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined capabilities,
3821 + regenerated html documentation.
3822 + add -m and -s options to test/keynames.c and test/key_names.c to test
3823 the meta() function with keyname() or key_name(), respectively.
3824 + correct return value of key_name() on error; it is null.
3825 + document some unresolved issues for rpath and pthreads in TO-DO.
3826 + fix a missing prototype for ioctl() on OpenBSD in tset.c
3827 + add configure option --disable-tic-depends to make explicit whether
3828 tic library depends on ncurses/ncursesw library, amends change from
3829 20080823 (prompted by Debian #501421).
3832 + some build-fixes for configure --disable-ext-funcs (incomplete, but
3833 works for C/C++ parts).
3834 + improve configure-check for awks unable to handle large strings, e.g.
3835 AIX 5.1 whose awk silently gives up on large printf's.
3838 + fix build for --with-dmalloc by workaround for redefinition of
3839 strndup between string.h and dmalloc.h
3840 + fix build for --disable-sigwinch
3841 + add environment variable NCURSES_GPM_TERMS to allow override to use
3842 GPM on terminals other than "linux", etc.
3843 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM does not happen to contain
3844 "linux", since Gpm_Open() no longer limits its assertion to terminals
3845 that it might handle, e.g., within "screen" in xterm.
3846 + reset mouse file-descriptor when unloading GPM library (report by
3848 + fix build for --disable-leaks --enable-widec --with-termlib
3849 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
3850 + use improved initialization for soft-label keys in Ada95 sample code.
3851 + discard internal symbol _nc_slk_format (unused since 20080112).
3852 + move call of slk_paint_info() from _nc_slk_initialize() to
3853 slk_intern_refresh(), improving initialization.
3856 + fix bug in mouse code for GPM from 20080920 changes (reported in
3857 Debian #500103, also Miroslav Lichvar).
3860 + fix shared-library rules for cygwin with tic- and tinfo-libraries.
3861 + fix a memory leak when failure to connect to GPM.
3862 + correct check for notimeout() in wgetch() (report on linux.redhat
3863 newsgroup by FurtiveBertie).
3864 + add an example warning-suppression file for valgrind,
3865 misc/ncurses.supp (based on example from Reuben Thomas)
3868 + change shared-library configuration for OpenBSD, make rpath work.
3869 + build-fixes for using libutf8, e.g., on OpenBSD 3.7
3872 + corrected fix for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
3876 + corrected gcc options for building shared libraries on IRIX64.
3877 + add configure check for awk programs unable to handle big-strings,
3878 use that to improve the default for --enable-big-strings option.
3879 + makefile-fixes for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
3881 + update test/configure script.
3882 + adapt ifdef's from library to make test/view.c build when mbrtowc()
3883 is unavailable, e.g., with HPUX 10.20.
3884 + add configure check for wcsrtombs, mbsrtowcs, which are used in
3885 test/ncurses.c, and use wcstombs, mbstowcs instead if available,
3886 fixing build of ncursew for HPUX 11.00
3889 + fixes to make Ada95 demo_panels() example work.
3890 + modify Ada95 'rain' test program to accept keyboard commands like the
3892 + modify BeOS-specific ifdef's to build on Haiku (patch by Scott
3894 + add configure-check to see if the std namespace is legal for cerr
3895 and endl, to fix a build issue with Tru64.
3896 + consistently use NCURSES_BOOL in lib_gen.c
3897 + filter #line's from lib_gen.c
3898 + change delimiter in MKlib_gen.sh from '%' to '@', to avoid
3899 substitution by IBM xlc to '#' as part of its extensions to digraphs.
3900 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3901 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
3902 (caveat - its maintainer removed support for older Linux systems).
3905 + modify configure check for pthread library to work with OSF/1 5.1,
3906 which uses #define's to associate its header and library.
3907 + use pthread_mutexattr_init() for initializing pthread_mutexattr_t,
3908 makes threaded code work on HPUX 11.23
3909 + fix a bug in demo_menus in freeing menus (cf: 20080804).
3910 + modify configure script for the case where tic library is used (and
3911 possibly renamed) to remove its dependency upon ncurses/ncursew
3912 library (patch by Dr Werner Fink).
3913 + correct manpage for menu_fore() which gave wrong default for
3914 the attribute used to display a selected entry (report by Mike Gran).
3915 + add Eterm-256color, Eterm-88color and rxvt-88color (prompted by
3919 + add configure option --enable-weak-symbols to turn on new feature.
3920 + add configure-check for availability of weak symbols.
3921 + modify linkage with pthread library to use weak symbols so that
3922 applications not linked to that library will not use the mutexes,
3923 etc. This relies on gcc, and may be platform-specific (patch by Dr
3925 + add note to INSTALL to document limitation of renaming of tic library
3926 using the --with-ticlib configure option (report by Dr Werner Fink).
3927 + document (in manpage) why tputs does not detect I/O errors (prompted
3928 by comments by Samuel Thibault).
3929 + fix remaining warnings from Klocwork report.
3932 + modify _nc_panelhook() data to account for a permanent memory leak.
3933 + fix memory leaks in test/demo_menus
3934 + fix most warnings from Klocwork tool (report by Larry Zhou).
3935 + modify configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to add case for
3936 "dragonfly" from xterm #236 changes.
3937 + modify configure script --with-hashed-db to let $LIBS override the
3938 search for the db library (prompted by report by Samson Pierre).
3941 + build-fixes for gcc 4.3.1 (changes to gnat "warnings", and C inlining
3945 + build-fix (reports by Christian Ebert, Funda Wang).
3948 + compiler-warning fixes for Solaris.
3951 + use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc., to
3952 make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration
3954 + improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL.
3955 + work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the
3956 -static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to
3960 + correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration.
3961 + make debugging library's $BAUDRATE feature work for termcap
3963 + make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface (prompted
3964 by comment on FreeBSD mailing list).
3965 + add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD
3966 + improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD
3969 + regenerated html documentation.
3970 + expand manpage description of parameters for form_driver() and
3971 menu_driver() (prompted by discussion with Adam Spragg).
3972 + add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and
3973 def_shell_mode(), def_prog_mode()
3974 + fix some memory leaks in delscreen() and wide acs.
3977 + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen().
3978 + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.
3979 + add "-shared" option to MK_SHARED_LIB for gcc on Solaris (report
3983 + finish changes to wgetch(), making it switch as needed to the
3984 window's actual screen when calling wrefresh() and wgetnstr(). That
3985 allows wgetch() to get used concurrently in different threads with
3986 some minor restrictions, e.g., the application should not delete a
3987 window which is being used in a wgetch().
3988 + simplify mutex's, combining the window- and screen-mutex's.
3991 + modify wgetch() to use the screen which corresponds to its window
3992 parameter rather than relying on SP; some dependent functions still
3994 + factor out most use of SP in lib_mouse.c, using parameter.
3995 + add internal _nc_keyname(), replacing keyname() to associate with a
3996 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
3997 + add internal _nc_unctrl(), replacing unctrl() to associate with a
3998 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
3999 + add internal _nc_tracemouse(), replacing _tracemouse() to eliminate
4000 its associated global buffer _nc_globals.tracemse_buf now in SCREEN.
4001 + add internal _nc_tracechar(), replacing _tracechar() to use SCREEN in
4002 preference to the global _nc_globals.tracechr_buf buffer.
4005 + modify _nc_keypad() to make it switch temporarily as needed to the
4006 screen which must be updated.
4007 + wrap cur_term variable to help make _nc_keymap() thread-safe, and
4008 always set the screen's copy of this variable in set_curterm().
4009 + restore curs_set() state after endwin()/refresh() (report/patch
4013 + modify configure script to note that --enable-ext-colors and
4014 --enable-ext-mouse are not experimental, but extensions from
4016 + corrected manpage description of setcchar() (discussion with
4017 Emanuele Giaquinta).
4018 + fix for adding a non-spacing character at the beginning of a line
4019 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
4022 + modify screen.* terminfo entries using new screen+fkeys to fix
4023 overridden keys in screen.rxvt (Debian #478094) -TD
4024 + modify internal interfaces to reduce wgetch()'s dependency on the
4026 + simplify some loops with macros each_screen(), each_window() and
4030 + continue modifying test/ditto.c toward making it demonstrate
4031 multithreaded use_screen(), using fifos to pass data between screens.
4032 + fix typo in form.3x (report by Mike Gran).
4035 + add screen.rxvt terminfo entry -TD
4036 + modify tic -f option to format spaces as \s to prevent them from
4037 being lost when that is read back in unformatted strings.
4038 + improve test/ditto.c, using a "talk"-style layout.
4041 + change test/ditto.c to use openpty() and xterm.
4042 + add locks for copywin(), dupwin(), overlap(), overlay() on their
4044 + add locks for initscr() and newterm() on updates to the SCREEN
4046 + finish table in curs_thread.3x manpage.
4049 + begin table in curs_thread.3x manpage describing the scope of data
4050 used by each function (or symbol) for threading analysis.
4051 + add null-pointer checks to setsyx() and getsyx() (prompted by
4052 discussion by Martin v. Lowis and Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven on
4053 python-dev2 mailing list).
4056 + add null-pointer checks in set_term() and delscreen().
4057 + move _nc_windows into _nc_globals, since windows can be pads, which
4058 are not associated with a particular screen.
4059 + change use_screen() to pass the SCREEN* parameter rather than
4060 stdscr to the callback function.
4061 + force libtool to use tag for 'CC' in case it does not detect this,
4062 e.g., on aix when using CC=powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-gcc
4063 (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
4064 + override OBJEXT to "lo" when building with libtool, to work on
4065 platforms such as AIX where libtool may use a different suffix for
4066 the object files than ".o" (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
4067 + add configure --with-pthread option, for building with the POSIX
4071 + fill in extended-color pair two more places in wbkgrndset() and
4072 waddch_nosync() (prompted by Sedeno's patch).
4073 + fill in extended-color pair in _nc_build_wch() to make colors work
4074 for wide-characters using extended-colors (patch by Alejandro R
4076 + add x/X toggles to ncurses.c C color test to test/demo
4077 wide-characters with extended-colors.
4078 + add a/A toggles to ncurses.c c/C color tests.
4079 + modify test/ditto.c to use use_screen().
4080 + finish modifying test/rain.c to demonstrate threads.
4083 + start modifying test/rain.c for threading demo.
4084 + modify test/ncurses.c to make 'f' test accept the f/F/b/F/</> toggles
4085 that the 'F' accepts.
4086 + modify test/worm.c to show trail in reverse-video when other threads
4087 are working concurrently.
4088 + fix a deadlock from improper nesting of mutexes for windowlist and
4092 + fixes from 20080223 resolved issue with mutexes; change to use
4093 recursive mutexes to fix memory leak in delwin() as called from
4094 _nc_free_and_exit().
4097 + fix a size-difference in _nc_globals which caused hanging of mutex
4098 lock/unlock when termlib was built separately.
4101 + avoid using nanosleep() in threaded configuration since that often
4102 is implemented to suspend the entire process.
4105 + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses for
4106 comparisons. This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open curses
4107 that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping. None of the Unix-branded
4108 implementations do this, as noted in manpage (cf: 20040228).
4111 + modify _nc_setupscreen() to set the legacy-coding value the same
4112 for both narrow/wide models. It had been set only for wide model,
4113 but is needed to make unctrl() work with locale in the narrow model.
4114 + improve waddch() and winsch() handling of EILSEQ from mbrtowc() by
4115 using unctrl() to display illegal bytes rather than trying to append
4116 further bytes to make up a valid sequence (reported by Andrey A
4118 + modify unctrl() to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint().
4119 If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or "~"
4123 + improve threading in test/worm.c (wrap refresh calls, and KEY_RESIZE
4124 handling). Now it hangs in napms(), no matter whether nanosleep()
4125 or poll() or select() are used on Linux.
4128 + fixes to build with --disable-ext-funcs
4129 + add manpage for use_window and use_screen.
4130 + add set_tabsize() and set_escdelay() functions.
4133 + remove recursive-mutex definitions, finish threading demo for worm.c
4134 + remove a redundant adjustment of lines in resizeterm.c's
4135 adjust_window() which caused occasional misadjustment of stdscr when
4139 + several improvements to terminfo entries based on xterm #230 -TD
4140 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle keyname/key_name prototypes, so the
4141 "link_test" builds properly.
4142 + fix for toe command-line options -u/-U to ensure filename is given.
4143 + fix allocation-size for command-line parsing in infocmp from 20070728
4144 (report by Miroslav Lichvar)
4145 + improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting the
4146 soft-keys (report by Katarina Machalkova)
4147 + add clarification in wclear's manpage noting that the screen will be
4148 cleared even if a subwindow is cleared (prompted by Christer Enfors
4150 + change test/ncurses.c soft-key tests to work with KEY_RESIZE.
4153 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
4157 + add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C functions that
4158 pass a WINDOW* parameter (request by Chris Lee).
4161 + add note about configure options needed for Berkeley database to the
4163 + improve checks for version of Berkeley database libraries.
4164 + amend fix for rpath to not modify LDFLAGS if the platform has no
4165 applicable transformation (report by Christian Ebert, cf: 20071124).
4168 + modify configure option --with-hashed-db to accept a parameter which
4169 is the install-prefix of a given Berkeley Database (prompted by
4170 pierre4d2 comments).
4171 + rewrite wrapper for wcrtomb(), making it work on Solaris. This is
4172 used in the form library to determine the length of the buffer needed
4173 by field_buffer (report by Alfred Fung).
4174 + remove unneeded window-parameter from C++ binding for wresize (report
4178 + modify the support for filesystems which do not support mixed-case to
4179 generate 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level of the
4180 filesystem terminfo database (request by Michail Vidiassov).
4181 + add configure option --enable-mixed-case, to allow overriding the
4182 configure script's check if the filesystem supports mixed-case
4184 + add wresize() to C++ binding (request by Chris Lee).
4185 + define NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS and NCURSES_EXT_COLORS in curses.h to make
4186 it simpler to tell if the extended functions and/or colors are
4190 + update memory-leak checks for changes to names.c and codes.c
4191 + correct acsc strings in h19, z100 (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler).
4194 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
4196 + add mrxvt terminfo entry, add/fix xterm building blocks for modified
4198 + compile with FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface (patch by
4202 + modify makefile rules to allow clear, tput and tset to be built
4203 without libtic. The other programs (infocmp, tic and toe) rely on
4205 + add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or
4206 the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger).
4207 + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat #310071,
4208 patches by Miroslav Lichvar).
4209 + improve performance of NCURSES_CHAR_EQ code (patch by Miroslav
4211 + update/improve mlterm and rxvt terminfo entries, e.g., for
4212 the modified cursor- and keypad-keys -TD
4215 + add code to curses.priv.h ifdef'd with NCURSES_CHAR_EQ, which
4216 changes the CharEq() macro to an inline function to allow comparing
4217 cchar_t struct's without comparing gaps in a possibly unpacked
4218 memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
4221 + add new functions to lib_trace.c to setup mutex's for the _tracef()
4222 calls within the ncurses library.
4223 + for the reentrant model, move _nc_tputs_trace and _nc_outchars into
4225 + start modifying test/worm.c to provide threading demo (incomplete).
4226 + separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make
4227 it compile on LynxOS (report by Greg Gemmer).
4229 + modify Ada95/gen/Makefile to use shlib script, to simplify building
4230 shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support.
4231 + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for
4232 the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated.
4233 + restructuring test/worm.c, for use_window() example.
4236 + add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support
4237 for threaded library (incomplete).
4238 + fix typos in man/curs_opaque.3x which kept the install script from
4239 creating symbolic links to two aliases created in 20070818 (report by
4243 + remove a spurious newline from output of html.m4, which caused links
4244 for Ada95 html to be incorrect for the files generated using m4.
4245 + start investigating mutex's for SCREEN manipulation (incomplete).
4246 + minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const
4247 + expand/revise "Routine and Argument Names" section of ncurses manpage
4248 to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion.
4249 + fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure
4250 options (report by Michail Vidiassov).
4251 + fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov).
4254 + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function
4256 + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings"
4257 option from working (patch by Mike Frysinger).
4260 + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD
4261 + modify comp_hash.c's string output to avoid misinterpreting a null
4262 "\0" followed by a digit.
4263 + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings.
4264 This only applies to the cases (broken linker, reentrant) where
4265 the corresponding arrays are accessed via wrapper functions.
4266 + split MKnames.awk into two scripts, eliminating the shell redirection
4267 which complicated the make process and also the bogus timestamp file
4268 which was introduced to fix "make -j".
4269 + add test/test_opaque.c, test/test_arrays.c
4270 + add wgetscrreg() and wgetparent() for applications that may need it
4271 when NCURSES_OPAQUE is defined (prompted by Bryan Christ).
4274 + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit
4275 unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017).
4276 + modify comp_captab.c generation to use big-strings.
4277 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private accessed via
4278 _nc_get_alias_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
4280 + modify configure script to skip Intel compiler in CF_C_INLINE.
4281 + make _nc_info_hash_table and _nc_cap_hash_table private accessed via
4282 _nc_get_hash_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
4286 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private, accessed via
4287 _nc_get_alias_table() since they are used only by parse_entry.c
4288 + make _nc_key_names private since it is used only by lib_keyname.c
4289 + add --disable-big-strings configure option to control whether
4290 unctrl.c is generated using the big-string optimization - which may
4291 use strings longer than supported by a given compiler.
4292 + reduce relocation tables for tic, infocmp by changing type of
4293 internal hash tables to short, and make those private symbols.
4294 + eliminate large fixed arrays from progs/infocmp.c
4297 + change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line (cf: 970315).
4298 + add test/test_get_wstr.c
4299 + add test/test_getstr.c
4300 + add test/test_inwstr.c
4301 + add test/test_instr.c
4304 + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which
4305 is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm()
4306 (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm,
4310 + add test/savescreen.c test-program
4311 + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add
4312 ".log" to the name and try again.
4313 + add konsole-256color entry -TD
4314 + add extra gcc warning options from xterm.
4315 + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program.
4316 + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
4317 --disable-echo option is used.
4318 + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
4319 writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD #114493).
4320 + update config.guess, config.sub
4323 + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes.
4324 + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
4325 taking into account some split characters on left/right window
4329 + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining
4330 problems with multi-column characters.
4331 + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters
4332 which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
4333 + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case
4334 multi-column extension bits are passed there.
4335 + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters.
4336 + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug
4337 report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET,
4340 + add test/demo_panels.c
4341 + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx().
4344 + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
4346 + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon
4347 wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan).
4350 + add test/key_name.c
4351 + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test/inch_wide.c
4352 + update test/configure
4353 + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
4354 + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
4355 + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair,
4359 + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
4360 (discussion with Clive Nicolson).
4361 + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
4362 illustrate how to use mvcur().
4363 + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
4364 WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
4365 is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
4366 + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
4367 + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
4370 + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or
4371 if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
4372 initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604).
4373 + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x
4374 + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications
4375 broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230).
4378 + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a
4379 problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of
4381 + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to
4382 ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted
4383 from patch by Clive Nicolson).
4384 + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x
4387 + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to
4388 become uninitialized in the "b" test.
4389 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent
4390 movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the
4392 + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with
4394 + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value
4395 from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout().
4396 + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with
4397 Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options
4398 --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib
4401 + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to
4402 quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from
4404 + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses
4405 library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol.
4406 + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that
4407 an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is
4408 reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms
4409 (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney).
4410 + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e.,
4411 + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming
4412 + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of
4413 SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries.
4414 + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421).
4417 + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and
4418 _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage.
4419 + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding
4420 type for data manipulated by signal handlers (prompted by comments
4421 in mailing.openbsd.bugs newsgroup).
4422 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static
4423 to the libtool create- and link-operations.
4426 + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in
4427 the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro).
4428 + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when
4429 Ada95 tree is not built.
4432 + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x
4433 + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
4434 + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from
4435 FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by
4436 comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup).
4437 + fix includes in c++ binding to build with Intel compiler
4439 + update install rule in Ada95 to use mkdirs.sh
4440 > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report:
4441 + modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements
4442 + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss()
4443 + fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c
4444 + corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in
4445 progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case.
4446 > fixes based on Coverity report:
4447 + remove dead code in test/bs.c
4448 + remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c
4449 + remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c
4450 + fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset()
4451 + fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420
4452 tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon.
4453 + fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist()
4454 + fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for EOF.
4455 + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c
4456 + add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes
4457 + add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter() handling
4459 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin()
4460 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr()
4461 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
4462 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist()
4463 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
4464 + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c
4465 + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c
4466 + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c
4467 + add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc
4470 + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
4471 global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).
4472 + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
4473 to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
4474 + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
4475 structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
4476 + improved install-sh's quoting.
4477 + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from
4481 + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface.
4482 + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option
4483 --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
4484 + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with
4485 NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to
4489 + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
4490 the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
4491 + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character
4492 in the configure script to an error.
4493 + tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs
4494 such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov)
4495 + modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line.
4496 + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
4497 + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail
4499 + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version
4500 of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ).
4503 + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224
4504 changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
4507 + increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work
4508 properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter
4510 + add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to
4511 implement a reentrant version of ncurses:
4512 + libraries are suffixed with "t"
4513 + wrap several global variables (curscr, newscr, stdscr, ttytype,
4514 COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS, COLS, ESCDELAY, LINES and TABSIZE) as
4515 functions returning values stored in SCREEN or cur_term.
4516 + move some initialization (LINES, COLS) from lib_setup.c,
4517 i.e., setupterm() to _nc_setupscreen(), i.e., newterm().
4520 + regenerated html documentation.
4521 + add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs
4522 opaque in selected configurations.
4523 + move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when
4524 running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into
4525 _nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made
4526 identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
4527 + do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries
4528 outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized
4529 only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded
4530 dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
4531 + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
4532 installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
4533 case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
4535 + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
4536 (prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther).
4539 + change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases
4540 where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was
4541 ungetch'd, and read by wget_wch().
4542 + fix static-library build broken in 20070217 changes to remove "-ldl"
4543 (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
4544 + change makefile/scripts for cygwin to allow building termlib.
4545 + use Form_Hook in manpages to match form.h
4546 + use Menu_Hook in manpages, as well as a few places in menu.h
4547 + correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options,
4548 Menu_Options and Item_Options types.
4549 + correct prototype for _tracechar() in manpage (cf: 20011229).
4550 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
4553 + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav
4555 + modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is
4556 enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to
4557 disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov,
4559 + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping
4560 the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
4561 + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
4562 programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
4563 + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
4564 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
4565 + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
4566 which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
4568 + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking
4569 shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
4572 + add test/inchs.c, test/inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
4573 + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
4575 + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
4577 + modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned
4578 for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong
4579 regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf: 20041023).
4582 + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
4583 from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
4584 Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
4585 associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
4587 + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc.
4588 + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted.
4589 + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints
4590 to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built.
4591 + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding
4592 no longer relies on it.
4593 + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
4594 --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
4595 + remove tack from ncurses tree.
4598 + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
4599 (report by Rong-En Fan).
4602 + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
4603 to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
4604 + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
4605 it is removed from the ncurses tree.
4606 + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
4607 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
4608 + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
4609 its license consistent with ncurses.
4610 + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
4611 the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias).
4612 + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
4615 + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
4616 term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
4617 + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
4618 + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
4622 + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
4623 _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
4624 + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
4626 + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
4627 in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
4630 + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
4631 + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
4632 (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
4635 + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
4636 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
4637 + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
4638 defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
4639 + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
4640 lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
4641 + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
4642 names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
4643 + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
4644 to manpages as needed.
4645 + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
4646 + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
4649 + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
4650 from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
4651 + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
4652 + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
4653 + update config.guess, config.sub
4655 20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
4658 + add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
4659 definitions in <wchar.h>.
4660 + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
4661 correct nor portable.
4662 + add $(LOCAL_LIBS) definition to progs/Makefile.in, needed for
4664 + ignore wide-acs line-drawing characters that wcwidth() claims are
4665 not one-column. This is a workaround for Solaris' broken locale
4669 + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
4670 i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
4671 (requested by Bryan Henderson).
4672 + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile.
4673 + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
4674 'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
4677 + change default for --with-develop back to "no".
4678 + add XTABS to tracing of TTY bits.
4679 + updated autoconf patch to ifdef-out the misfeature which declares
4680 exit() for configure tests. This fixes a redefinition warning on
4682 + use ${CC} rather than ${LD} in shared library rules for IRIX64,
4683 Solaris to help ensure that initialization sections are provided for
4684 extra linkage requirements, e.g., of C++ applications (prompted by
4685 comment by Casper Dik in newsgroup).
4686 + rename "$target" in CF_MAN_PAGES to make it easier to distinguish
4687 from the autoconf predefined symbol. There was no conflict,
4688 since "$target" was used only in the generated edit_man.sh file,
4689 but SuSE's rpm package contains a patch.
4692 + update man/term.5 to reflect extended terminfo support and hashed
4693 database configuration.
4694 + updates for test/configure script.
4695 + adapted from SuSE rpm package:
4696 + remove long-obsolete workaround for broken-linker which declared
4698 + improve error recovery in PUTC() macro when wcrtomb() does not
4699 return usable results for an 8-bit character.
4700 + patches from rpm package (SuSE):
4701 + use va_copy() in extra varargs manipulation for tracing version
4703 + use a va_list rather than a null in _nc_freeall()'s call to
4704 _nc_printf_string().
4705 + add some see-also references in manpages to show related
4706 wide-character functions (suggested by Claus Fischer).
4709 + add a check in lib_color.c to ensure caller does not increase COLORS
4710 above max_colors, which is used as an array index (discussion with
4712 + add ifdef's allowing ncurses to be built with tparm() using either
4713 varargs (the existing status), or using a fixed-parameter list (to
4717 + fix redrawing of windows other than stdscr using wredrawln() by
4718 touching the corresponding rows in curscr (discussion with Dan
4721 + add test/echochar.c
4722 + review/cleanup manpage descriptions of error-returns for form- and
4723 menu-libraries (prompted by FreeBSD docs/46196).
4726 + add AUTHORS file -TD
4727 + omit the -D options from output of the new config script --cflags
4728 option (suggested by Ralf S Engelschall).
4729 + make NCURSES_INLINE unconditionally defined in curses.h
4732 + revert change to accommodate bash 3.2, since that breaks other
4733 platforms, e.g., Solaris.
4734 + minor fixes to NEWS file to simplify scripting to obtain list of
4736 + improve some shared-library configure scripting for Linux, FreeBSD
4737 and NetBSD to make "--with-shlib-version" work.
4738 + change configure-script rules for FreeBSD shared libraries to allow
4739 for rpath support in versions past 3.
4740 + use $(DESTDIR) in makefile rules for installing/uninstalling the
4741 package config script (reports/patches by Christian Wiese,
4742 Ralf S Engelschall).
4743 + fix a warning in the configure script for NetBSD 2.0, working around
4744 spurious blanks embedded in its ${MAKEFLAGS} symbol.
4745 + change test/Makefile to simplify installing test programs in a
4746 different directory when --enable-rpath is used.
4749 + work around bug in bash 3.2 by adding extra quotes (Jim Gifford).
4750 + add/install a package config script, e.g., "ncurses5-config" or
4751 "ncursesw5-config", according to configuration options.
4754 + add several GNU Screen terminfo variations with 16- and 256-colors,
4755 and status line (Alain Bench).
4756 + change the way shared libraries (other than libtool) are installed.
4757 Rather than copying the build-tree's libraries, link the shared
4758 objects into the install directory. This makes the --with-rpath
4759 option work except with $(DESTDIR) (cf: 20000930).
4762 + fix ifdef in c++/internal.h for QNX 6.1
4763 + test-compiled with (old) egcs-1.1.2, modified configure script to
4764 not unset the $CXX and related variables which would prevent this.
4765 + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvments to "-f" option.
4766 + improve infocmp/tic "-f" option formatting.
4769 + make --disable-largefile option work (report by Thomas M Ott).
4770 + updated html documentation.
4771 + add ka2, kb1, kb3, kc2 to vt220-keypad as an extension -TD
4772 + minor improvements to rxvt+pcfkeys -TD
4775 + move static data from lib_mouse.c into SCREEN struct.
4776 + improve ifdef's for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset to work with Mac OS X
4777 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
4778 + modify CF_PATH_SYNTAX to ensure it uses the result from --prefix
4779 option (from lynx changes) -TD
4780 + adapt AC_PROG_EGREP check, noting that this is likely to be another
4781 place aggravated by POSIXLY_CORRECT.
4782 + modify configure check for awk to ensure that it is found (prompted
4783 by report by Christopher Parker).
4787 + add kon, kon2 and jfbterm terminfo entry (request by Till Maas) -TD
4788 + remove invis capability from klone+sgr, mainly used by linux entry,
4789 since it does not really do this -TD
4792 + correct logic in wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not guard
4793 against passing the multi-column attribute into a call on waddch(),
4794 e.g., using data returned by win_wch() (cf: 20041023)
4795 (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
4798 + fix kterm's acsc string -TD
4799 + fix for change to tic/infocmp in 20060819 to ensure no blank is
4800 embedded into a termcap description.
4801 + workaround for 20050806 ifdef's change to allow visbuf.c to compile
4802 when using --with-termlib --with-trace options.
4803 + improve tgetstr() by making the return value point into the user's
4804 buffer, if provided (patch by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat #202480)).
4805 + correct libraries needed for foldkeys (report by Stanislav Ievlev)
4808 + add terminfo entries for xfce terminal (xfce) and multi gnome
4810 + add test/foldkeys.c
4813 + modify tic and infocmp to avoid writing trailing blanks on terminfo
4814 source output (Debian #378783).
4815 + modify configure script to ensure that if the C compiler is used
4816 rather than the loader in making shared libraries, the $(CFLAGS)
4817 variable is also used (Redhat #199369).
4818 + port hashed-db code to db2 and db3.
4819 + fix a bug in tgetent() from 20060625 and 20060715 changes
4820 (patch/analysis by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat #202480)).
4823 + updated xterm function-keys terminfo to match xterm #216 -TD
4824 + add configure --with-hashed-db option (tested only with FreeBSD 6.0,
4825 e.g., the db 1.8.5 interface).
4828 + modify toe to access termcap data, e.g., via cgetent() functions,
4829 or as a text file if those are not available.
4830 + use _nc_basename() in tset to improve $SHELL check for csh/sh.
4831 + modify _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_termcap_entry() so infocmp,
4832 can access termcap data when the terminfo database is disabled.
4835 + widen the test for xterm kmous a little to allow for other strings
4836 than \E[M, e.g., for xterm-sco functionality in xterm.
4837 + update xterm-related terminfo entries to match xterm patch #216 -TD
4838 + update config.guess, config.sub
4841 + fix for install-rule in Ada95 to add terminal_interface.ads
4842 and terminal_interface.ali (anonymous posting in comp.lang.ada).
4843 + correction to manpage for getcchar() (report by William McBrine).
4845 + modify wchgat() to mark updated cells as changed so a refresh will
4846 repaint those cells (comments by Sadrul H Chowdhury and William
4848 + split up dependency of names.c and codes.c in ncurses/Makefile to
4849 work with parallel make (report/analysis by Joseph S Myers).
4850 + suppress a warning message (which is ignored) for systems without
4851 an ldconfig program (patch by Justin Hibbits).
4852 + modify configure script --disable-symlinks option to allow one to
4853 disable symlink() in tic even when link() does not work (report by
4855 + modify MKfallback.sh to use tic -x when constructing fallback tables
4856 to allow extended capabilities to be retrieved from a fallback entry.
4857 + improve leak-checking logic in tgetent() from 20060625 to ensure that
4858 it does not free the current screen (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
4861 + add a check for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset (NetBSD #33916).
4862 + correct _nc_free_entries() and related functions used for memory leak
4866 + revert a minor change for magic-cookie support from 20060513, which
4867 caused unexpected reset of attributes, e.g., when resizing test/view
4869 + note in clear manpage that the program ignores command-line
4870 parameters (prompted by Debian #371855).
4871 + fixes to make lib_gen.c build properly with changes to the configure
4872 --disable-macros option and NCURSES_NOMACROS (cf: 20060527)
4873 + update/correct several terminfo entries -TD
4874 + add some notes regarding copyright to terminfo.src -TD
4877 + fixes to build Ada95 binding with gnat-4.1.0
4878 + modify read_termtype() so the term_names data is always allocated as
4879 part of the str_table, a better fix for a memory leak (cf: 20030809).
4880 + reduce memory leaks in repeated calls to tgetent() by remembering the
4881 last TERMINAL* value allocated to hold the corresponding data and
4882 freeing that if the tgetent() result buffer is the same as the
4883 previous call (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
4884 + modify tack to test extended capability function-key strings.
4885 + improved gnome terminfo entry (GenToo #122566).
4886 + improved xterm-256color terminfo entry (patch by Alain Bench).
4889 + fix two small memory leaks related to repeated tgetent() calls
4890 with TERM=screen (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
4891 + add --enable-signed-char to simplify Debian package.
4892 + reduce name-pollution in term.h by removing #define's for HAVE_xxx
4894 + correct typo in curs_terminfo.3x (Debian #369168).
4897 + enable the mouse in test/movewindow.c
4898 + improve a limit-check in frm_def.c (John Heasley).
4899 + minor copyright fixes.
4900 + change configure script to produce test/Makefile from data file.
4903 + add a configure option --enable-wgetch-events to enable
4904 NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS, and correct the associated loop-logic in
4905 lib_twait.c (report by Bernd Jendrissek).
4906 + remove include/nomacros.h from build, since the ifdef for
4907 NCURSES_NOMACROS makes that obsolete.
4908 + add entrypoints for some functions which were only provided as macros
4909 to make NCURSES_NOMACROS ifdef work properly: getcurx(), getcury(),
4910 getbegx(), getbegy(), getmaxx(), getmaxy(), getparx() and getpary(),
4912 + provide ifdef for NCURSES_NOMACROS which suppresses most macro
4913 definitions from curses.h, i.e., where a macro is defined to override
4914 a function to improve performance. Allowing a developer to suppress
4915 these definitions can simplify some application (discussion with
4917 + improve description of memu/meml in terminfo manpage.
4920 + if msgr is false, reset video attributes when doing an automargin
4921 wrap to the next line. This makes the ncurses 'k' test work properly
4923 + correct caching of keyname(), which was using only half of its table.
4924 + minor fixes to memory-leak checking.
4925 + make SCREEN._acs_map and SCREEN._screen_acs_map pointers rather than
4926 arrays, making ACS_LEN less visible to applications (suggested by
4928 + move chunk in SCREEN ifdef'd for USE_WIDEC_SUPPORT to the end, so
4929 _screen_acs_map will have the same offset in both ncurses/ncursesw,
4930 making the corresponding tinfo/tinfow libraries binary-compatible
4931 (cf: 20041016, report by Stanislav Ievlev).
4934 + improve debug-tracing for EmitRange().
4935 + change default for --with-develop to "yes". Add NCURSES_NO_HARD_TABS
4936 and NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE environment variables to allow runtime
4937 suppression of the related hard-tabs and xmc-glitch features.
4938 + add ncurses version number to top-level manpages, e.g., ncurses, tic,
4939 infocmp, terminfo as well as form, menu, panel.
4940 + update config.guess, config.sub
4941 + modify ncurses.c to work around a bug in NetBSD 3.0 curses
4942 (field_buffer returning null for a valid field). The 'r' test
4943 appears to not work with that configuration since the new_fieldtype()
4944 function is broken in that implementation.
4947 + add hpterm-color terminfo entry -TD
4948 + fixes to compile test-programs with HPUX 11.23
4951 + add copyright notices to files other than those that are generated,
4952 data or adapted from pdcurses (reports by William McBrine, David
4954 + improve rendering on hpterm by not resetting attributes at the end
4955 of doupdate() if the terminal has the magic-cookie feature (report
4957 + add 256color variants of terminfo entries for programs which are
4958 reported to implement this feature -TD
4961 + fix typo in change to NewChar() macro from 20060311 changes, which
4962 broke tab-expansion (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
4965 + document -U option of tic and infocmp.
4966 + modify tic/infocmp to suppress smacs/rmacs when acsc is suppressed
4967 due to size limit, e.g., converting to termcap format. Also
4968 suppress them if the output format does not contain acsc and it
4969 was not VT100-like, i.e., a one-one mapping (Novell #163715).
4970 + add configure check to ensure that SIGWINCH is defined on platforms
4971 such as OS X which exclude that when _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., are
4972 defined (report by Nicholas Cole)
4975 + modify write_object() to not write coincidental extensions of an
4976 entry made due to it being referenced in a use= clause (report by
4978 + another fix for infocmp -i option, which did not ensure that some
4979 escape sequences had comparable prefixes (report by Alain Bench).
4982 + improve discussion of init/reset in terminfo and tput manpages
4983 (report by Alain Bench).
4984 + use is3 string for a fallback of rs3 in the reset program; it was
4985 using is2 (report by Alain Bench).
4986 + correct logic for infocmp -i option, which did not account for
4987 multiple digits in a parameter (cf: 20040828) (report by Alain
4989 + move _nc_handle_sigwinch() to lib_setup.c to make --with-termlib
4990 option work after 20060114 changes (report by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz).
4991 + add copyright notices to test-programs as needed (report by William
4995 + modify ncurses.c 'F' test to combine the wide-characters with color
4996 and/or video attributes.
4997 + modify test/ncurses to use CTL/Q or ESC consistently for exiting
4998 a test-screen (some commands used 'x' or 'q').
5001 + fix an off-by-one in the scrolling-region change (cf_ 20060311).
5004 + add checks in waddchnstr() and wadd_wchnstr() to stop copying when
5005 a null character is found (report by Igor Bogomazov).
5006 + modify progs/Makefile.in to make "tput init" work properly with
5007 cygwin, i.e., do not pass a ".exe" in the reference string used
5008 in check_aliases (report by Samuel Thibault).
5009 + add some checks to ensure current position is within scrolling
5010 region before scrolling on a new line (report by Dan Gookin).
5011 + change some NewChar() usage to static variables to work around
5012 stack garbage introduced when cchar_t is not packed (Redhat #182024).
5015 + workarounds to build test/movewindow with PDcurses 2.7.
5016 + fix for nsterm-16color entry (patch by Alain Bench).
5017 + correct a typo in infocmp manpage (Debian #354281).
5020 + add nsterm-16color entry -TD
5021 + updated mlterm terminfo entry -TD
5022 + remove 970913 feature for copying subwindows as they are moved in
5023 mvwin() (discussion with Bryan Christ).
5024 + modify test/demo_menus.c to demonstrate moving a menu (both the
5025 window and subwindow) using shifted cursor-keys.
5026 + start implementing recursive mvwin() in movewindow.c (incomplete).
5027 + add a fallback definition for GCC_PRINTFLIKE() in test.priv.h,
5028 for movewindow.c (report by William McBrine).
5029 + add help-message to test/movewindow.c
5032 + add test/movewindow.c, to test mvderwin().
5033 + fix ncurses soft-key test so color changes are shown immediately
5034 rather than delayed.
5035 + modify ncurses soft-key test to hide the keys when exiting the test
5037 + fixes to build test programs with PDCurses 2.7, e.g., its headers
5038 rely on autoconf symbols, and it declares stubs for nonfunctional
5039 terminfo and termcap entrypoints.
5042 + improved test/configure to build test/ncurses on HPUX 11 using the
5044 + documented ALTERNATE CONFIGURATIONS in the ncurses manpage, for the
5045 benefit of developers who do not read INSTALL.
5048 + correct form library Window_To_Buffer() change (cf: 20040516), which
5049 should ignore the video attributes (report by Ricardo Cantu).
5052 + minor fixes to xmc-glitch experimental code:
5053 + suppress line-drawing
5054 + implement max_attributes
5056 + minor fixes for the database iterator.
5057 + fix some buffer limits in c++ demo (comment by Falk Hueffner in
5061 + add toe -a option, to show all databases. This uses new private
5062 interfaces in the ncurses library for iterating through the list of
5064 + fix toe from 20000909 changes which made it not look at
5066 + make toe's -v option parameter optional as per manpage.
5067 + improve SIGWINCH handling by postponing its effect during newterm(),
5068 etc., when allocating screens.
5071 + modify wgetnstr() to return KEY_RESIZE if a sigwinch occurs. Use
5072 this in test/filter.c
5073 + fix an error in filter() modification which caused some applications
5077 + check if filter() was called when getting the screensize. Keep it
5078 at 1 if so (based on Redhat #174498).
5079 + add extension nofilter().
5080 + refined the workaround for ACS mapping.
5081 + make ifdef's consistent in curses.h for the extended colors so the
5082 header file can be used for the normal curses library. The header
5083 file installed for extended colors is a variation of the
5084 wide-character configuration (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
5087 + add a workaround to ACS mapping to allow applications such as
5088 test/blue.c to use the "PC ROM" characters by masking them with
5089 A_ALTCHARSET. This worked up til 5.5, but was lost in the revision
5090 of legacy coding (report by Michael Deutschmann).
5091 + add a null-pointer check in the wide-character version of
5092 calculate_actual_width() (report by Victor Julien).
5093 + improve test/ncurses 'd' (color-edit) test by allowing the RGB
5094 values to be set independently (patch by William McBrine).
5095 + modify test/configure script to allow building test programs with
5097 + modified test programs to allow some to work with NetBSD curses.
5098 Several do not because NetBSD curses implements a subset of X/Open
5099 curses, and also lacks much of SVr4 additions. But it's enough for
5101 + update config.guess and config.sub
5104 + use BSD-specific fix for return-value from cgetent() from CVS where
5105 an unknown terminal type would be reportd as "database not found".
5106 + make tgetent() return code more readable using new symbols
5108 + remove references to non-existent "tctest" program.
5109 + remove TESTPROGS from progs/Makefile.in (it was referring to code
5110 that was never built in that directory).
5111 + typos in curs_addchstr.3x, some doc files (noticed in OpenBSD CVS).
5114 + add use_legacy_coding() function to support lynx's font-switching
5116 + fix formatting in curs_termcap.3x (report by Mike Frysinger).
5117 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to change preprocessor-expanded _Bool back to
5121 + extend test/ncurses.c 's' (overlay window) test to exercise overlay(),
5122 overwrite() and copywin() with different combinations of colors and
5123 attributes (including background color) to make it easy to see the
5124 effect of the different functions.
5125 + corrections to menu/m_global.c for wide-characters (report by
5129 + add configure option --without-dlsym, allowing developers to
5130 configure GPM support without using dlsym() (discussion with Michael
5132 + fix wins_nwstr(), which did not handle single-column non-8bit codes
5136 + move prototypes for wide-character trace functions from curses.tail
5137 to curses.wide to avoid accidental reference to those if
5138 _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined without ensuring that <wchar.h> is
5140 + add/use NCURSES_INLINE definition.
5141 + change some internal functions to use int/unsigned rather than the
5145 + remove a redundant check in lib_color.c (Debian #335655).
5146 + use ld's -search_paths_first option on Darwin to work around odd
5147 search rules on that platform (report by Christian Gennerat, analysis
5149 + remove special case for Darwin in CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro.
5150 + ignore EINTR in tcgetattr/tcsetattr calls (Debian #339518).
5151 + fix several bugs in test/bs.c (patch by Stephen Lindholm).
5154 + other minor fixes to cygwin based on tack -TD
5155 + correct smacs in cygwin (Debian #338234, report by Baurzhan
5156 Ismagulov, who noted that it was fixed in Cygwin).
5159 + add shifted up/down arrow codes to xterm-new as kind/kri strings -TD
5160 + modify wbkgrnd() to avoid clearing the A_CHARTEXT attribute bits
5161 since those record the state of multicolumn characters (Debian
5163 + modify werase to clear multicolumn characters that extend into
5164 a derived window (Debian #316663).
5167 + move assignment from environment variable ESCDELAY from initscr()
5168 down to newterm() so the environment variable affects timeouts for
5169 terminals opened with newterm() as well.
5170 + fix a memory leak in keyname().
5171 + add test/demo_altkeys.c
5172 + modify test/demo_defkey.c to exit from loop via 'q' to allow
5173 leak-checking, as well as fix a buffer size in winnstr() call.
5176 + correct order of use-clauses in rxvt-basic entry which made codes for
5177 f1-f4 vt100-style rather than vt220-style (report by Gabor Z Papp).
5178 + suppress configure check for gnatmake if Ada95/Makefile.in is not
5180 + correct a typo in configure --with-bool option for the case where
5181 --without-cxx is used (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
5182 + add a note to INSTALL's discussion of --with-normal, pointing out
5183 that one may wish to use --without-gpm to ensure a completely
5184 static link (prompted by report by Felix von Leitner).
5186 20051010 5.5 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
5189 + document in demo_forms.c some portability issues.
5192 + document side-effect of werase() which sets the cursor position.
5193 + save/restore the current position in form field editing to make
5197 + correct header dependencies in progs, allowing parallel make (report
5198 by Daniel Jacobowitz).
5199 + modify CF_BUILD_CC to ensure that pre-setting $BUILD_CC overrides
5200 the configure check for --with-build-cc (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
5201 + modify CF_CFG_DEFAULTS to not use /usr as the default prefix for
5203 + update config.guess and config.sub from
5204 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
5207 + modify sed expression which computes path for /usr/lib/terminfo
5208 symbolic link in install to ensure that it does not change unexpected
5209 levels of the path (Gentoo #42336).
5210 + modify default for --disable-lp64 configure option to reduce impact
5211 on existing 64-bit builds. Enabling the _LP64 option may change the
5212 size of chtype and mmask_t. However, for ABI 6, it is enabled by
5213 default (report by Mike Frysinger).
5214 + add configure script check for --enable-ext-mouse, bump ABI to 6 by
5215 default if it is used.
5216 + improve configure script logic for bumping ABI to omit this if the
5217 --with-abi-version option was used.
5218 + update address for Free Software Foundation in tack's source.
5219 + correct wins_wch(), which was not marking the filler-cells of
5220 multi-column characters (cf: 20041023).
5223 + modify mouse initialization to ensure that Gpm_Open() is called only
5224 once. Otherwise GPM gets confused in its initialization of signal
5225 handlers (Debian #326709).
5228 + modify logic for backspacing in a multiline form field to ensure that
5229 it works even when the preceding line is full (report by Frank van
5231 + remove comment about BUGS section of ncurses manpage (Debian #325481)
5234 + document some workarounds for shared and libtool library
5235 configurations in INSTALL (see --with-shared and --with-libtool).
5236 + modify CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GXX_VERSION macros to accommodate
5237 cross-compilers which emit the platform name in their version
5239 arm-sa1100-linux-gnu-g++ (GCC) 4.0.1
5240 (report by Frank van Vugt).
5243 + start updating documentation for upcoming 5.5 release.
5244 + fix to make libtool and libtinfo work together again (cf: 20050122).
5245 + fixes to allow building traces into libtinfo
5246 + add debug trace to tic that shows if/how ncurses will write to the
5247 lower corner of a terminal's screen.
5248 + update llib-l* files.
5251 + modify initializers in c++ binding to build with old versions of g++.
5252 + improve special case for 20050115 repainting fix, ensuring that if
5253 the first changed cell is not a character that the range to be
5254 repainted is adjusted to start at a character's beginning (Debian
5258 + fixes to build on QNX 6.1
5259 + improve configure script checks for Intel 9.0 compiler.
5260 + remove #include's for libc.h (obsolete).
5261 + adjust ifdef's in curses.priv.h so that when cross-compiling to
5262 produce comp_hash and make_keys, no dependency on wchar.h is needed.
5263 That simplifies the build-cppflags (report by Frank van Vugt).
5264 + move modules related to key-binding into libtinfo to fix linkage
5265 problem caused by 20050430 changes to MKkeyname.sh (report by
5266 Konstantin Andreev).
5269 + updates/fixes for configure script macros from vile -TD
5270 + make prism9's sgr string agree with the rest of the terminfo -TD
5271 + make vt220's sgr0 string consistent with sgr string, do this for
5272 several related cases -TD
5273 + improve translation to termcap by filtering the 'me' (sgr0) strings
5274 as in the runtime call to tgetent() (prompted by a discussion with
5276 + improve tic check for sgr0 versus sgr(0), to help ensure that sgr0
5277 resets line-drawing.
5280 + fix special cases for trimming sgr0 for hurd and vt220 (Debian
5282 + split-out _nc_trim_sgr0() from modifications made to tgetent(), to
5283 allow it to be used by tic to provide information about the runtime
5284 changes that would be made to sgr0 for termcap applications.
5285 + modify make_sed.sh to make the group-name in the NAME section of
5286 form/menu library manpage agree with the TITLE string when renaming
5287 is done for Debian (Debian #78866).
5290 + modify parameter type in c++ binding for insch() and mvwinsch() to
5291 be consistent with underlying ncurses library (was char, is chtype).
5292 + modify treatment of Intel compiler to allow _GNU_SOURCE to be defined
5294 + improve configure check for nanosleep(), checking that it works since
5295 some older systems such as AIX 4.3 have a nonworking version.
5298 + update config.guess and config.sub from
5299 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
5300 + modify misc/shlib to work in test-directory.
5301 + suppress $suffix in misc/run_tic.sh when cross-compiling. This
5302 allows cross-compiles to use the host's tic program to handle the
5303 "make install.data" step.
5304 + improve description of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables in manpages
5305 (prompted by report by Dave Ulrick).
5306 + improve description of cross-compiling in INSTALL
5307 + add NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html by Pradeep Padala
5308 (see http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/).
5309 + modify configure script to obtain soname for GPM library (discussion
5310 with Daniel Jacobowitz).
5311 + modify configure script so that --with-chtype option will still
5312 compute the unsigned literals suffix for constants in curses.h
5313 (report by Daniel Jacobowitz:
5314 + patches from Daniel Jacobowitz:
5315 + the man_db.renames entry for tack.1 was backwards.
5316 + tack.1 had some 1m's that should have been 1M's.
5317 + the section for curs_inwstr.3 was wrong.
5320 + correction to --with-chtype option (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
5323 + move build-time edit_man.sh and edit_man.sed scripts to top directory
5324 to simplify reusing them for renaming tack's manpage (prompted by a
5325 review of Debian package).
5326 + revert minor optimization from 20041030 (Debian #313609).
5327 + libtool-specific fixes, tested with libtool 1.4.3, 1.5.0, 1.5.6,
5328 1.5.10 and 1.5.18 (all work except as noted previously for the c++
5329 install using libtool 1.5.0):
5330 + modify the clean-rule in c++/Makefile.in to work with IRIX64 make
5332 + use $(LIBTOOL_UNINSTALL) symbol, overlooked in 20030830
5333 + add configure options --with-chtype and --with-mmask-t, to allow
5334 overriding of the non-LP64 model's use of the corresponding types.
5335 + revise test for size of chtype (and mmask_t), which always returned
5336 "long" due to an uninitialized variable (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
5339 + change _tracef's that used "%p" format for va_list values to ignore
5340 that, since on some platforms those are not pointers.
5341 + fixes for long-formats in printf's due to largefile support.
5344 + fixes for termcap support:
5345 + reset pointer to _nc_curr_token.tk_name when the input stream is
5346 closed, which could point to free memory (cf: 20030215).
5347 + delink TERMTYPE data which is used by the termcap reader, so that
5348 extended names data will be freed consistently.
5349 + free pointer to TERMTYPE data in _nc_free_termtype() rather than
5351 + add some entrypoints for freeing permanently allocated data via
5352 _nc_freeall() when NO_LEAKS is defined.
5353 + amend 20041030 change to _nc_do_color to ensure that optimization is
5354 applied only when the terminal supports back_color_erase (bce).
5357 + add sun-color terminfo entry -TD
5358 + correct a missing assignment in c++ binding's method
5359 NCursesPanel::UserPointer() from 20050409 changes.
5360 + improve configure check for large-files, adding check for dirent64
5362 + minor change to configure script to improve linker options for the
5366 + document error conditions for ncurses library functions (report by
5368 + regenerated html documentation for ada binding.
5369 see ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml
5372 + regenerated html documentation for manpages.
5373 + add $(BUILD_EXEEXT) suffix to invocation of make_keys in
5374 ncurses/Makefile (Gentoo #89772).
5375 + modify c++/demo.cc to build with g++ -fno-implicit-templates option
5376 (patch by Mike Frysinger).
5377 + modify tic to filter out long extended names when translating to
5378 termcap format. Only two characters are permissible for termcap
5382 + modify terminfo entries xterm-new and rxvt to add strings for
5383 shift-, control-cursor keys.
5384 + workaround to allow c++ binding to compile with g++ 2.95.3, which
5385 has a broken implementation of static_cast<> (patch by Jeff Chua).
5386 + modify initialization of key lookup table so that if an extended
5387 capability (tic -x) string is defined, and its name begins with 'k',
5388 it will automatically be treated as a key.
5389 + modify test/keynames.c to allow for the possibility of extended
5390 key names, e.g., via define_key(), or via "tic -x".
5391 + add test/demo_termcap.c to show the contents of given entry via the
5395 + minor fixes for vt100/vt52 entries -TD
5396 + add configure option --enable-largefile
5397 + corrected libraries used to build Ada95/gen/gen, found in testing
5401 + update config.guess, config.sub
5402 + modify configure script check for _XOPEN_SOURCE, disable that on
5403 Darwin whose header files have problems (patch by Chris Zubrzycki).
5404 + modify form library Is_Printable_String() to use iswprint() rather
5405 than wcwidth() for determining if a character is printable. The
5406 latter caused it to reject menu items containing non-spacing
5408 + modify ncurses test program's F-test to handle non-spacing characters
5409 by combining them with a reverse-video blank.
5410 + review/fix several gcc -Wconversion warnings.
5413 + correct an off-by-one error in m_driver() for mouse-clicks used to
5414 position the mouse to a particular item.
5415 + implement test/demo_menus.c
5416 + add some checks in lib_mouse to ensure SP is set.
5417 + modify C++ binding to make 20050403 changes work with the configure
5418 --enable-const option.
5421 + modify start_color() to return ERR if it cannot allocate memory.
5422 + address g++ compiler warnings in C++ binding by adding explicit
5423 member initialization, assignment operators and copy constructors.
5424 Most of the changes simply preserve the existing semantics of the
5425 binding, which can leak memory, etc., but by making these features
5426 visible, it provides a framework for improving the binding.
5427 + improve C++ binding using static_cast, etc.
5428 + modify configure script --enable-warnings to add options to g++ to
5429 correspond to the gcc --enable-warnings.
5430 + modify C++ binding to use some C internal functions to make it
5431 compile properly on Solaris (and other platforms).
5434 + amend change from 20050320 to limit it to configurations with a
5436 + fix a bug introduced in 20050320 which broke the translation of
5437 nonprinting characters to uparrow form (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
5440 + add ifdef's for _LP64 in curses.h to avoid using wasteful 64-bits for
5441 chtype and mmask_t, but add configure option --disable-lp64 in case
5442 anyone used that configuration.
5443 + update misc/shlib script to account for Mac OS X (report by Michail
5445 + correct comparison for wrapping multibyte characters in
5446 waddch_literal() (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
5449 + add -c and -w options to tset to allow user to suppress ncurses'
5450 resizing of the terminal emulator window in the special case where it
5451 is not able to detect the true size (report by Win Delvaux, Debian
5453 + modify waddch_nosync() to account for locale zn_CH.GBK, which uses
5454 codes 128-159 as part of multibyte characters (report by Wang
5455 WenRui, Debian #300512).
5458 + modify ncurses.c 'd' test to make it work with 88-color
5459 configuration, i.e., by implementing scrolling.
5460 + improve scrolling in ncurses.c 'c' and 'C' tests, e.g., for 88-color
5464 + change tracemunch to use strict checking.
5465 + modify ncurses.c 'p' test to test line-drawing within a pad.
5466 + implement environment variable NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS to support
5467 miscellaneous terminal emulators which ignore alternate character
5468 set escape sequences when in UTF-8 mode.
5471 + change NCursesWindow::err_handler() to a virtual function (request by
5473 + modify fty_int.c and fty_num.c to handle wide characters (report by
5475 + adapt fix for fty_alpha.c to fty_alnum.c, which also handled normal
5476 and wide characters inconsistently (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
5477 + update llib-* files to reflect internal interface additions/changes.
5480 + improve test/configure script, adding tests for _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc.,
5482 + add aixterm-16color terminfo entry -TD
5483 + modified xterm-new terminfo entry to work with tgetent() changes -TD
5484 + extended changes in tgetent() from 20040710 to allow the substring of
5485 sgr0 which matches rmacs to be at the beginning of the sgr0 string
5486 (request by Thomas Wolff). Wolff says the visual effect in
5487 combination with pre-20040710 ncurses is improved.
5488 + fix off-by-one in winnstr() call which caused form field validation
5489 of multibyte characters to ignore the last character in a field.
5490 + correct logic in winsch() for inserting multibyte strings; the code
5491 would clear cells after the insertion rather than push them to the
5492 right (cf: 20040228).
5493 + fix an inconsistency in Check_Alpha_Field() between normal and wide
5494 character logic (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
5497 + fix a bug in editing wide-characters in form library: deleting a
5498 nonwide character modified the previous wide-character.
5499 + update manpage to describe NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2.
5500 + correct manpage description of mouseinterval() (Debian #280687).
5501 + add a note to default_colors.3x explaining why this extension was
5502 added (Debian #295083).
5503 + add traces to panel library.
5506 + improve editing of wide-characters in form library: left/right
5507 cursor movement, and single-character deletions work properly.
5508 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM happens to be prefixed with
5509 "xterm". Gpm_Open() would otherwise assert that it can deal with
5510 mouse events in this case.
5511 + modify GPM mouse support so it closes the server connection when
5512 the caller disables the mouse (report by Stanislav Ievlev).
5515 + add traces for callback functions in form library.
5516 + add experimental configure option --enable-ext-mouse, which defines
5517 NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2, and modifies the encoding of mouse events to
5518 support wheel mice, which may transmit buttons 4 and 5. This works
5519 with xterm and similar X terminal emulators (prompted by question by
5520 Andreas Henningsson, this is also related to Debian #230990).
5521 + improve configure macros CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE to
5522 avoid redefinition warnings on cygwin.
5525 + merge remaining development changes for extended colors (mostly
5526 complete, does not appear to break other configurations).
5527 + add xterm-88color.dat (part of extended colors testing).
5528 + improve _tracedump() handling of color pairs past 96.
5529 + modify return-value from start_color() to return OK if colors have
5530 already been started.
5531 + modify curs_color.3x list error conditions for init_pair(),
5532 pair_content() and color_content().
5533 + modify pair_content() to return -1 for consistency with init_pair()
5534 if it corresponds to the default-color.
5535 + change internal representation of default-color to allow application
5536 to use color number 255. This does not affect the total number of
5537 color pairs which are allowed.
5538 + add a top-level tags rule.
5541 + add a null-pointer check in wgetch() in case it is called without
5542 first calling initscr().
5543 + add some null-pointer checks for SP, which is not set by libtinfo.
5544 + modify misc/shlib to ensure that absolute pathnames are used.
5545 + modify test/Makefile.in, etc., to link test programs only against the
5546 libraries needed, e.g., omit form/menu/panel library for the ones
5547 that are curses-specific.
5548 + change SP->_current_attr to a pointer, adjust ifdef's to ensure that
5549 libtinfo.so and libtinfow.so have the same ABI. The reason for this
5550 is that the corresponding data which belongs to the upper-level
5551 ncurses library has a different size in each model (report by
5555 + minor fixes to allow test-compiles with g++.
5556 + correct column value shown in tic's warnings, which did not account
5557 for leading whitespace.
5558 + add a check in _nc_trans_string() for improperly ended strings, i.e.,
5559 where a following line begins in column 1.
5560 + modify _nc_save_str() to return a null pointer on buffer overflow.
5561 + improve repainting while scrolling wide-character data (Eungkyu Song).
5564 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
5567 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
5568 + fix manpage typo (FreeBSD report docs/75544).
5569 + update config.guess, config.sub
5570 > patches for configure script (Albert Chin-A-Young):
5571 + improved fix to make mbstate_t recognized on HPUX 11i (cf:
5572 20030705), making vsscanf() prototype visible on IRIX64. Tested for
5573 on HP-UX 11i, Solaris 7, 8, 9, AIX 4.3.3, 5.2, Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, 5.1,
5574 IRIX64 6.5, Redhat Linux 7.1, 9, and RHEL 2.1, 3.0.
5575 + print the result of the --disable-home-terminfo option.
5576 + use -rpath when compiling with SGI C compiler.
5579 + add trace calls to remaining public functions in form and menu
5581 + fix check for numeric digits in test/ncurses.c 'b' and 'B' tests.
5582 + fix typo in test/ncurses.c 'c' test from 20041218.
5585 + revise test/ncurses.c 'c' color test to improve use for xterm-88color
5586 and xterm-256color, added 'C' test using the wide-character color_set
5587 and attr_set functions.
5590 + modify configure script to work with Intel compiler.
5591 + fix an limit-check in wadd_wchnstr() which caused labels in the
5592 forms-demo to be one character short.
5593 + fix typo in curs_addchstr.3x (Jared Yanovich).
5594 + add trace calls to most functions in form and menu libraries.
5595 + update working-position for adding wide-characters when window is
5596 scrolled (prompted by related report by Eungkyu Song).
5599 + replace some references on Linux to wcrtomb() which use it to obtain
5600 the length of a multibyte string with _nc_wcrtomb, since wcrtomb() is
5601 broken in glibc (see Debian #284260).
5602 + corrected length-computation in wide-character support for
5604 + some fixes to frm_driver.c to allow it to accept multibyte input.
5605 + modify configure script to work with Intel 8.0 compiler.
5608 + amend change to setupterm() in 20030405 which would reuse the value
5609 of cur_term if the same output was selected. This now reuses it only
5610 when setupterm() is called from tgetent(), which has no notion of
5611 separate SCREENs. Note that tgetent() must be called after initscr()
5612 or newterm() to use this feature (Redhat #140326).
5613 + add a check in CF_BUILD_CC macro to ensure that developer has given
5614 the --with-build-cc option when cross-compiling (report by Alexandre
5616 + improved configure script checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE and
5617 _POSIX_C_SOURCE (fix for IRIX 5.3 from Georg Schwarz, _POSIX_C_SOURCE
5619 + cosmetic fix to test/gdc.c to recolor the bottom edge of the box
5620 for consistency (comment by Dan Nelson).
5623 + update wsvt25 terminfo entry -TD
5624 + modify test/ins_wide.c to test all flavors of ins_wstr().
5625 + ignore filler-cells in wadd_wchnstr() when adding a cchar_t array
5626 which consists of multi-column characters, since this function
5627 constructs them (cf: 20041023).
5628 + modify winnstr() to return multibyte character strings for the
5629 wide-character configuration.
5632 + fixes to make slk_set() and slk_wset() accept and store multibyte
5633 or multicolumn characters.
5636 + improve color optimization a little by making _nc_do_color() check
5637 if the old/new pairs are equivalent to the default pair 0.
5638 + modify assume_default_colors() to not require that
5639 use_default_colors() be called first.
5642 + modify term_attrs() to use termattrs(), add the extended attributes
5643 such as enter_horizontal_hl_mode for WA_HORIZONTAL to term_attrs().
5644 + add logic in waddch_literal() to clear orphaned cells when one
5645 multi-column character partly overwrites another.
5646 + improved logic for clearing cells when a multi-column character
5647 must be wrapped to a new line.
5648 + revise storage of cells for multi-column characters to correct a
5649 problem with repainting. In the old scheme, it was possible for
5650 doupdate() to decide that only part of a multi-column character
5651 should be repainted since the filler cells stored only an attribute
5652 to denote them as fillers, rather than the character value and the
5656 + minor fixes for traces.
5657 + add SP->_screen_acs_map[], used to ensure that mapping of missing
5658 line-drawing characters is handled properly. For example, ACS_DARROW
5659 is absent from xterm-new, and it was coincidentally displayed the
5663 + amend 20021221 workaround for broken acs to reset the sgr, rmacs
5664 and smacs strings as well. Also modify the check for screen's
5665 limitations in that area to allow the multi-character shift-in
5666 and shift-out which seem to work.
5667 + change GPM initialization, using dl library to load it dynamically
5668 at runtime (Debian #110586).
5671 + correct logic for color pair in setcchar() and getcchar() (patch by
5672 Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
5673 + add t/T commands to ncurses b/B tests to allow a different color to
5674 be tested for the attrset part of the test than is used in the
5678 + fix to make setcchar() to work when its wchar_t* parameter is
5679 pointing to a string which contains more data than can be converted.
5680 + modify wget_wstr() and example in ncurses.c to work if wchar_t and
5681 wint_t are different sizes (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
5684 + remove check in wget_wch() added to fix an infinite loop, appears to
5685 have been working around a transitory glibc bug, and interferes
5686 with normal operation (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
5687 + correct wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not pass the rendition
5688 information (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
5689 + fix aclocal.m4 so that the wide-character version of ncurses gets
5690 compiled as libncursesw.5.dylib, instead of libncurses.5w.dylib
5691 (adapted from patch by James J Ramsey).
5692 + change configure script for --with-caps option to indicate that it
5693 is no longer experimental.
5694 + change configure script to reflect the fact that --enable-widec has
5695 not been "experimental" since 5.3 (report by Bruno Lustosa).
5698 + add 'B' test to ncurses.c, to exercise some wide-character functions.
5701 + modify infocmp -i option to match 8-bit controls against its table
5702 entries, e.g., so it can analyze the xterm-8bit entry.
5703 + add morphos terminfo entry, improve amiga-8bit entry (Pavel Fedin).
5704 + correct translation of "%%" in terminfo format to termcap, e.g.,
5705 using "tic -C" (Redhat #130921).
5706 + modified configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to ensure that if
5707 it defines _POSIX_C_SOURCE, that it defines it to a specific value
5708 (comp.os.stratus newsgroup comment).
5711 + fixes to build with Ada95 binding with gnat 3.4 (all warnings are
5712 fatal, and gnat does not follow the guidelines for pragmas).
5713 However that did find a coding error in Assume_Default_Colors().
5714 + modify several terminfo entries to ensure xterm mouse and cursor
5715 visibility are reset in rs2 string: hurd, putty, gnome,
5716 konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, Debian #55637).
5717 The xterm entries are left alone - old ones for compatibility, and
5718 the new ones do not require this change. -TD
5721 + fake a SIGWINCH in newterm() to accommodate buggy terminal emulators
5722 and window managers (Debian #265631).
5723 > terminfo updates -TD
5724 + remove dch/dch1 from rxvt because they are implemented inconsistently
5725 with the common usage of bce/ech
5726 + remove khome from vt220 (vt220's have no home key)
5730 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test, adding v/V toggles to cycle through
5731 combinations of video attributes so that for instance bold and
5732 underline can be tested. This made the legend too crowded, added
5733 a help window as well.
5734 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test to cycle through default colors if
5735 the -d option is set.
5736 + update putty terminfo entry (Robert de Bath).
5739 + modify test/cardfile.c to allow it to read more data than can be
5741 + correct logic in resizeterm.c which kept it from processing all
5742 levels of window hierarchy (reports by Folkert van Heusden,
5746 + modify "tic -cv" to ignore delays when comparing strings. Also
5747 modify it to ignore a canceled sgr string, e.g., for terminals which
5748 cannot properly combine attributes in one control sequence.
5749 + corrections for gnome and konsole entries (Redhat #122815, patch by
5751 > terminfo updates -TD
5752 + make ncsa-m rmacs/smacs consistent with sgr
5753 + add sgr, rc/sc and ech to syscons entries
5754 + add function-keys to decansi
5755 + add sgr to mterm-ansi
5756 + add sgr, civis, cnorm to emu
5757 + correct/simplify cup in addrinfo
5760 > terminfo updates -TD
5761 + add xterm-pc-fkeys
5762 + review/update gnome and gnome-rh90 entries (prompted by Redhat
5764 + review/update konsole entries
5765 + add sgr, correct sgr0 for kterm and mlterm
5766 + correct tsl string in kterm
5769 + add configure option --without-xterm-new
5772 + add check in wget_wch() for printable bytes that are not part of a
5773 multibyte character.
5774 + modify wadd_wchnstr() to render text using window's background
5776 + improve tic's check to compare sgr and sgr0.
5777 + fix c++ directory's .cc.i rule.
5778 + modify logic in tgetent() which adjusts the termcap "me" string
5779 to work with ISO-2022 string used in xterm-new (cf: 20010908).
5780 + modify tic's check for conflicting function keys to omit that if
5781 converting termcap to termcap format.
5782 + add -U option to tic and infocmp.
5783 + add rmam/smam to linux terminfo entry (Trevor Van Bremen)
5784 > terminfo updates -TD
5785 + minor fixes for emu
5787 + change wyse acsc strings to use 'i' map rather than 'I'
5792 + use tic -x to install terminfo database -TD
5793 + add -x to infocmp's usage message.
5794 + correct field used for comparing O_ROWMAJOR in set_menu_format()
5795 (report/patch by Tony Li).
5796 + fix a missing nul check in set_field_buffer() from 20040508 changes.
5797 > terminfo updates -TD
5798 + make xterm-xf86-v43 derived from xterm-xf86-v40 rather than
5800 + align with xterm patch #192's use of xterm-new -TD
5801 + update xterm-new and xterm-8bit for cvvis/cnorm strings -TD
5802 + make xterm-new the default "xterm" entry -TD
5805 + correct BUILD_CPPFLAGS substitution in ncurses/Makefile.in, to allow
5806 cross-compiling from a separate directory tree (report/patch by
5808 + modify is_term_resized() to ensure that window sizes are nonzero,
5809 as documented in the manpage (report by Ian Collier).
5810 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro to make Hurd port build
5811 (Debian #249214, report/patch by Jeff Bailey).
5812 + configure-script mods from xterm, e.g., updates to CF_ADD_CFLAGS
5813 + update config.guess, config.sub
5814 > terminfo updates -TD
5816 + add xterm-xf86-v44
5817 + modify xterm-new aka xterm-xfree86 to accommodate luit, which
5818 relies on G1 being used via an ISO-2022 escape sequence (report by
5823 + reconsidered winsnstr(), decided after comparing other
5824 implementations that wrapping is an X/Open documentation error.
5825 + modify test/inserts.c to test all flavors of insstr().
5828 + add setlocale() calls to a few test programs which may require it:
5829 demo_forms.c, filter.c, ins_wide.c, inserts.c
5830 + correct a few misspelled function names in ncurses-intro.html (report
5832 + correct internal name of key_defined() manpage, which conflicted with
5836 + correct size of internal pad used for holding wide-character
5837 field_buffer() results.
5838 + modify data_ahead() to work with wide-characters.
5841 + improve description of terminfo if-then-else expressions (suggested
5843 + improve test/ncurses.c 'd' test, allow it to use external file for
5844 initial palette (added xterm-16color.dat and linux-color.dat), and
5845 reset colors to the initial palette when starting/ending the test.
5846 + change limit-check in init_color() to allow r/g/b component to
5847 reach 1000 (cf: 20020928).
5850 + modify form library to use cchar_t's rather than char's in the
5851 wide-character configuration for storing data for field buffers.
5852 + correct logic of win_wchnstr(), which did not work for more than
5856 + replace memset/memcpy usage in form library with for-loops to
5857 simplify changing the datatype of FIELD.buf, part of wide-character
5859 + fix some inconsistent use of #if/#ifdef (report by Alain Guibert).
5862 + modify menu library to account for actual number of columns used by
5863 multibyte character strings, in the wide-character configuration
5864 (adapted from patch by Philipp Tomsich).
5865 + add "-x" option to infocmp like tic's "-x", for use in "-F"
5866 comparisons. This modifies infocmp to only report extended
5867 capabilities if the -x option is given, making this more consistent
5868 with tic. Some scripts may break, since infocmp previous gave this
5869 information without an option.
5870 + modify termcap-parsing to retain 2-character aliases at the beginning
5871 of an entry if the "-x" option is used in tic.
5874 + minor compiler-warning and test-program fixes.
5877 + modify tic's missing-sgr warning to apply to terminfo only.
5878 + free some memory leaks in tic.
5879 + remove check in post_menu() that prevented menus from extending
5880 beyond the screen (request by Max J. Werner).
5881 + remove check in newwin() that prevents allocating windows
5882 that extend beyond the screen. Solaris curses does this.
5883 + add ifdef in test/color_set.c to allow it to compile with older
5885 + add napms() calls to test/dots.c to make it not be a CPU hog.
5888 + modify unctrl() to return null if its parameter does not correspond
5889 to an unsigned char.
5890 + add some limit-checks to guard isprint(), etc., from being used on
5891 values that do not fit into an unsigned char (report by Sami Farin).
5894 + fix a typo in the _nc_get_locale() change.
5897 + modify _nc_get_locale() to use setlocale() to query the program's
5898 current locale rather than using getenv(). This fixes a case in tin
5899 which relies on legacy treatment of 8-bit characters when the locale
5900 is not initialized (reported by Urs Jansen).
5901 + add sgr string to screen's and rxvt's terminfo entries -TD.
5902 + add a check in tic for terminfo entries having an sgr0 but no sgr
5903 string. This confuses Tru64 and HPUX curses when combined with
5904 color, e.g., making them leave line-drawing characters in odd places.
5905 + correct casts used in ABSENT_BOOLEAN, CANCELLED_BOOLEAN, matches the
5906 original definitions used in Debian package to fix PowerPC bug before
5907 20030802 (Debian #237629).
5910 + modify PutAttrChar() and PUTC() macro to improve use of
5911 A_ALTCHARSET attribute to prevent line-drawing characters from
5912 being lost in situations where the locale would otherwise treat the
5913 raw data as nonprintable (Debian #227879).
5916 + fix a redefinition of CTRL() macro in test/view.c for AIX 5.2 (report
5918 + remove ".PP" after ".SH NAME" in a few manpages; this confuses
5919 some apropos script (Debian #237831).
5922 + modify ncurses.c 'r' test so editing commands, like inserted text,
5923 set the field background, and the state of insert/overlay editing
5924 mode is shown in that test.
5925 + change syntax of dummy targets in Ada95 makefiles to work with pmake.
5926 + correct logic in test/ncurses.c 'b' for noncolor terminals which
5927 did not recognize a quit-command (cf: 20030419).
5930 + modify _nc_insert_ch() to allow for its input to be part of a
5932 + split out lib_insnstr.c, to prepare to rewrite it. X/Open states
5933 that this function performs wrapping, unlike all of the other
5934 insert-functions. Currently it does not wrap.
5935 + check for nl_langinfo(CODESET), use it if available (report by
5937 + split-out CF_BUILD_CC macro, actually did this for lynx first.
5938 + fixes for configure script CF_WITH_DBMALLOC and CF_WITH_DMALLOC,
5939 which happened to work with bash, but not with Bourne shell (report
5940 by Marco d'Itri via tin-dev).
5943 + some changes to adapt the form library to wide characters, incomplete
5944 (request by Mike Aubury).
5945 + add symbol to curses.h which can be used to suppress include of
5947 #define NCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H 0
5949 (discussion on XFree86 mailing list).
5952 + modify configure --with-termlib option to accept a value which sets
5953 the name of the terminfo library. This would allow a packager to
5954 build libtinfow.so renamed to coincide with libtinfo.so (discussion
5955 with Stanislav Ievlev).
5956 + improve documentation of --with-install-prefix, --prefix and
5957 $(DESTDIR) in INSTALL (prompted by discussion with Paul Lew).
5958 + add configure check if the compiler can use -c -o options to rename
5959 its output file, use that to omit the 'cd' command which was used to
5960 ensure object files are created in a separate staging directory
5961 (prompted by comments by Johnny Wezel, Martin Mokrejs).
5963 20040208 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
5966 20040207 pre-release
5967 + minor fixes to _nc_tparm_analyze(), i.e., do not count %i as a param,
5968 and do not count %d if it follows a %p.
5969 + correct an inconsistency between handling of codes in the 128-255
5970 range, e.g., as illustrated by test/ncurses.c f/F tests. In POSIX
5971 locale, the latter did not show printable results, while the former
5973 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to compensate for broken C preprocessor on Mac
5974 OS X, which alters "%%" to "% % " (report by Robert Simms, fix
5975 verified by Scott Corscadden).
5977 20040131 pre-release
5978 + modify SCREEN struct to align it between normal/wide curses flavors
5979 to simplify future changes to build a single version of libtinfo
5980 (patch by Stanislav Ievlev).
5981 + document handling of carriage return by addch() in manpage.
5982 + document special features of unctrl() in manpage.
5983 + documented interface changes in INSTALL.
5984 + corrected control-char test in lib_addch.c to account for locale
5985 (Debian #230335, cf: 971206).
5986 + updated test/configure.in to use AC_EXEEXT and AC_OBJEXT.
5987 + fixes to compile Ada95 binding with Debian gnat 3.15p-4 package.
5988 + minor configure-script fixes for older ports, e.g., BeOS R4.5.
5990 20040125 pre-release
5991 + amend change to PutAttrChar() from 20030614 which computed the number
5992 of cells for a possibly multi-cell character. The 20030614 change
5993 forced the cell to a blank if the result from wcwidth() was not
5994 greater than zero. However, wcwidth() called for parameters in the
5995 range 128-255 can give this return value. The logic now simply
5996 ensures that the number of cells is greater than zero without
5997 modifying the displayed value.
5999 20040124 pre-release
6000 + looked good for 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org (but see above)
6001 + modify configure script check for ranlib to use AC_CHECK_TOOL, since
6002 that works better for cross-compiling.
6004 20040117 pre-release
6005 + modify lib_get_wch.c to prefer mblen/mbtowc over mbrlen/mbrtowc to
6006 work around core dump in Solaris 8's locale support, e.g., for
6007 zh_CN.GB18030 (report by Saravanan Bellan).
6008 + add includes for <stdarg.h> and <stdio.h> in configure script macro
6009 to make <wchar.h> check work with Tru64 4.0d.
6010 + add terminfo entry for U/Win -TD
6011 + add terminfo entries for SFU aka Interix aka OpenNT (Federico
6013 + modify tput's error messages to prefix them with the program name
6014 (report by Vincent Lefevre, patch by Daniel Jacobowitz (see Debian
6016 + correct a place in tack where exit_standout_mode was used instead of
6017 exit_attribute_mode (patch by Jochen Voss (see Debian #224443)).
6018 + modify c++/cursesf.h to use const in the Enumeration_Field method.
6019 + remove an ambiguous (actually redundant) method from c++/cursesf.h
6020 + make $HOME/.terminfo update optional (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
6021 + improve sed script which extracts libtool's version in the
6022 CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro.
6023 + add ifdef'd call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL to CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro (to
6024 simplify local patch for Albert Chin-A-Young)..
6025 + add $(CXXFLAGS) to link command in c++/Makefile.in (adapted from
6026 patch by Albert Chin-A-Young)..
6027 + fix a missing substitution in configure.in for "$target" needed for
6029 + resync CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro with lynx; fixes IRIX64 and
6030 NetBSD 1.6 conflicts with _XOPEN_SOURCE.
6031 + make check for stdbool.h more specific, to ensure that including it
6032 will actually define/declare bool for the configured compiler.
6033 + rewrite ifdef's in curses.h relating NCURSES_BOOL and bool. The
6034 intention of that is to #define NCURSES_BOOL as bool when the
6035 compiler declares bool, and to #define bool as NCURSES_BOOL when it
6036 does not (reported by Jim Gifford, Sam Varshavchik, cf: 20031213).
6038 20040110 pre-release
6039 + change minor version to 4, i.e., ncurses 5.4
6040 + revised/improved terminfo entries for tvi912b, tvi920b (Benjamin C W
6042 + simplified ncurses/base/version.c by defining the result from the
6043 configure script rather than using sprintf (suggested by Stanislav
6045 + remove obsolete casts from c++/cursesw.h (reported by Stanislav
6047 + modify configure script so that when configuring for termlib, programs
6048 such as tic are not linked with the upper-level ncurses library
6049 (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
6050 + move version.c from ncurses/base to ncurses/tinfo to allow linking
6051 of tic, etc., using libtinfo (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
6054 + adjust -D's to build ncursesw on OpenBSD.
6055 + modify CF_PROG_EXT to make OS/2 build with EXEEXT.
6056 + add pecho_wchar().
6057 + remove <wctype.h> include from lib_slk_wset.c which is not needed (or
6058 available) on older platforms.
6061 + add -D's to build ncursew on FreeBSD 5.1.
6062 + modify shared library configuration for FreeBSD 4.x/5.x to add the
6063 soname information (request by Marc Glisse).
6064 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() to not use MAX_ALIAS, but PATH_MAX only
6065 for limiting the length of a filename in the terminfo database.
6066 + modify termname() to return the terminal name used by setupterm()
6067 rather than $TERM, without truncating to 14 characters as documented
6068 by X/Open (report by Stanislav Ievlev, cf: 970719).
6069 + re-add definition for _BSD_TYPES, lost in merge (cf: 20031206).
6072 + add configure option --with-manpage-format=catonly to address
6073 behavior of BSDI, allow install of man+cat files on NetBSD, whose
6074 behavior has diverged by requiring both to be present.
6075 + remove leading blanks from comment-lines in manlinks.sed script to
6076 work with Tru64 4.0d.
6077 + add screen.linux terminfo entry (discussion on mutt-users mailing
6081 + add a check for tic to flag missing backslashes for termcap
6082 continuation lines. ncurses reads the whole entry, but termcap
6083 applications do not.
6084 + add configure option "--with-manpage-aliases" extending
6085 "--with-manpage-aliases" to provide the option of generating ".so"
6086 files rather than symbolic links for manpage aliases.
6087 + add bool definition in include/curses.h.in for configurations with no
6088 usable C++ compiler (cf: 20030607).
6089 + fix pathname of SigAction.h for building with --srcdir (reported by
6093 + folded ncurses/base/sigaction.c into includes of ncurses/SigAction.h,
6094 since that header is used only within ncurses/tty/lib_tstp.c, for
6095 non-POSIX systems (discussion with Stanislav Ievlev).
6096 + remove obsolete _nc_outstr() function (report by Stanislav Ievlev
6097 <inger@altlinux.org>).
6098 + add test/background.c and test/color_set.c
6099 + modify color_set() function to work with color pair 0 (report by
6100 George Andreou <gbandreo@tem.uoc.gr>).
6101 + add configure option --with-trace, since defining TRACE seems too
6102 awkward for some cases.
6103 + remove a call to _nc_free_termtype() from read_termtype(), since the
6104 corresponding buffer contents were already zeroed by a memset (cf:
6106 + improve configure check for _XOPEN_SOURCE and related definitions,
6107 adding special cases for Solaris' __EXTENSIONS__ and FreeBSD's
6108 __BSD_TYPES (reports by Marc Glisse <marc.glisse@normalesup.org>).
6109 + small fixes to compile on Solaris and IRIX64 using cc.
6110 + correct typo in check for pre-POSIX sort options in MKkey_defs.sh
6114 + modify _nc_gettime() to avoid a problem with arithmetic on unsigned
6115 values (Philippe Blain).
6116 + improve the nanosleep() logic in napms() by checking for EINTR and
6117 restarting (Philippe Blain).
6118 + correct expression for "%D" in lib_tgoto.c (Juha Jarvi
6122 + add linux-vt terminfo entry (Andrey V Lukyanov <land@long.yar.ru>).
6123 + allow "\|" escape in terminfo; tic should not warn about this.
6124 + save the full pathname of the trace-file the first time it is opened,
6125 to avoid creating it in different directories if the application
6126 opens and closes it while changing its working directory.
6127 + modify configure script to provide a non-empty default for
6131 + add DJGPP to special case of DOS-style drive letters potentially
6132 appearing in TERMCAP environment variable.
6133 + fix some spelling in comments (reports by Jason McIntyre, Jonathon
6135 + update config.guess, config.sub
6138 + fix a memory leak in error-return from setupterm() (report by
6139 Stanislav Ievlev <inger@altlinux.org>).
6140 + use EXEEXT and OBJEXT consistently in makefiles.
6141 + amend fixes for cross-compiling to use separate executable-suffix
6142 BUILD_EXEEXT (cf: 20031018).
6143 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for sort utility that does not
6144 recognize key options, e.g., busybox (report by Peter S Mazinger
6146 + fix potential out-of-bounds indexing in _nc_infotocap() (found by
6147 David Krause using some of the new malloc debugging features
6148 under OpenBSD, patch by Ted Unangst).
6149 + modify CF_LIB_SUFFIX for Itanium releases of HP-UX, which use a
6150 ".so" suffix (patch by Jonathan Ward <Jonathan.Ward@hp.com>).
6153 + update terminfo for xterm-xfree86 -TD
6154 + add check for multiple "tc=" clauses in a termcap to tic.
6155 + check for missing op/oc in tic.
6156 + correct _nc_resolve_uses() and _nc_merge_entry() to allow infocmp and
6157 tic to show cancelled capabilities. These functions were ignoring
6158 the state of the target entry, which should be untouched if cancelled.
6159 + correct comment in tack/output.c (Debian #215806).
6160 + add some null-pointer checks to lib_options.c (report by Michael
6162 + regenerated html documentation.
6163 + correction to tar-copy.sh, remove a trap command that resulted in
6164 leaving temporary files (cf: 20030510).
6165 + remove contact/maintainer addresses for Juergen Pfeifer (his request).
6168 + updated test/configure to reflect changes for libtool (cf: 20030830).
6169 + fix several places in tack/pad.c which tested and used the parameter-
6170 and parameterless strings inconsistently, i.e., in pad_rin(),
6171 pad_il(), pad_indn() and pad_dl() (Debian #215805).
6172 + minor fixes for configure script and makefiles to cleanup executables
6173 generated when cross-compiling for DJGPP.
6174 + modify infocmp to omit check for $TERM for operations that do not
6175 require it, e.g., "infocmp -e" used to build fallback list (report by
6179 + add terminfo entries for DJGPP.
6180 + updated note about maintainer in ncurses-intro.html
6183 + update terminfo entries for gnome terminal.
6184 + modify tack to reset colors after each color test, correct a place
6185 where exit_standout_mode was used instead of exit_attribute_mode.
6186 + improve tack's bce test by making it set colors other than black
6188 + plug a potential recursion between napms() and _nc_timed_wait()
6189 (report by Philippe Blain).
6192 + add --with-rel-version option to allow workaround to allow making
6193 libtool on Darwin generate the "same" library names as with the
6194 --with-shared option. The Darwin ld program does not work well
6195 with a zero as the minor-version value (request by Chris Zubrzycki).
6196 + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro to work with cross-compiling.
6197 + modify tack to allow it to run from fallback terminfo data.
6198 > patch by Philippe Blain:
6199 + improve PutRange() by adjusting call to EmitRange() and corresponding
6200 return-value to not emit unchanged characters on the end of the
6202 + improve a check for changed-attribute by exiting a loop when the
6204 + improve logic in TransformLine(), eliminating a duplicated comparison
6205 in the clr_bol logic.
6208 > patch by Philippe Blain:
6209 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
6210 move the label 'nonlocal' just before the second gettimeofday() to
6211 be able to compute the diff time when 'goto nonlocal' used.
6212 Rename 'msec' to 'microsec' in the debug-message.
6213 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
6214 Use _nc_outch() in carriage return/newline movement instead of
6215 putchar() which goes to stdout. Move test for xold>0 out of loop.
6216 + in ncurses/tinfo/setbuf.c,
6217 Set the flag SP->_buffered at the end of operations when all has been
6218 successful (typeMalloc can fail).
6219 + simplify NC_BUFFERED macro by moving check inside _nc_setbuf().
6222 + modify configure script to avoid using "head -1", which does not
6223 work if POSIXLY_CORRECT (sic) is set.
6224 + modify run_tic.in to avoid using wrong shared libraries when
6225 cross-compiling (Dan Kegel).
6228 + alter configure script help message to make it clearer that
6229 --with-build-cc does not specify a cross-compiler (suggested by Dan
6230 Kegel <dank@kegel.com>).
6231 + modify configure script to accommodate libtool 1.5, as well as add an
6232 parameter to the "--with-libtool" option which can specify the
6233 pathname of libtool (report by Chris Zubrzycki). We note that
6234 libtool 1.5 has more than one bug in its C++ support, so it is not
6235 able to install libncurses++, for instance, if $DESTDIR or the option
6236 --with-install-prefix is used.
6239 > patch by Philippe Blain:
6240 + move assignments to SP->_cursrow, SP->_curscol into online_mvcur().
6241 + make baudrate computation in delay_output() consistent with the
6242 assumption in _nc_mvcur_init(), i.e., a byte is 9 bits.
6245 + modify logic in waddch_literal() to take into account zh_TW.Big5
6246 whose multibyte sequences may contain "printable" characters, e.g.,
6247 a "g" in the sequence "\247g" (Debian #204889, cf: 20030621).
6248 + improve storage used by _nc_safe_strcpy() by ensuring that the size
6249 is reset based on the initialization call, in case it were called
6250 after other strcpy/strcat calls (report by Philippe Blain).
6251 > patch by Philippe Blain:
6252 + remove an unused ifdef for REAL_ATTR & WANT_CHAR
6253 + correct a place where _cup_cost was used rather than _cuu_cost
6256 + fix a small memory leak in _nc_free_termtype().
6257 + close trace-file if trace() is called with a zero parameter.
6258 + free memory allocated for soft-key strings, in delscreen().
6259 + fix an allocation size in safe_sprintf.c for the "*" format code.
6260 + correct safe_sprintf.c to not return a null pointer if the format
6261 happens to be an empty string. This applies to the "configure
6262 --enable-safe-sprintf" option (Redhat #101486).
6265 + modify casts used for ABSENT_BOOLEAN and CANCELLED_BOOLEAN (report by
6267 > patch by Philippe Blain:
6268 + change padding for change_scroll_region to not be proportional to
6269 the size of the scroll-region.
6270 + correct error-return in _nc_safe_strcat().
6273 + correct limit-checks in _nc_scroll_window() (report and test-case by
6274 Thomas Graf <graf@dms.at> cf: 20011020).
6275 + re-order configure checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE to avoid conflict with
6279 + use clr_eol in preference to blanks for bce terminals, so select and
6280 paste will have fewer trailing blanks, e.g., when using xterm
6281 (request by Vincent Lefevre).
6282 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
6283 + add configure --with-abi-version option (discussion with Charles
6285 > cygwin changes from Charles Wilson:
6286 + aclocal.m4: on cygwin, use autodetected prefix for import
6287 and static lib, but use "cyg" for DLL.
6288 + include/ncurses_dll.h: correct the comments to reflect current
6289 status of cygwin/mingw port. Fix compiler warning.
6290 + misc/run_tic.in: ensure that tic.exe can find the uninstalled
6291 DLL, by adding the lib-directory to the PATH variable.
6292 + misc/terminfo.src (nxterm|xterm-color): make xterm-color
6293 primary instead of nxterm, to match XFree86's xterm.terminfo
6294 usage and to prevent circular links.
6295 (rxvt): add additional codes from rxvt.org.
6296 (rxvt-color): new alias
6297 (rxvt-xpm): new alias
6298 (rxvt-cygwin): like rxvt, but with special acsc codes.
6299 (rxvt-cygwin-native): ditto. rxvt may be run under XWindows, or
6300 with a "native" MSWin GUI. Each takes different acsc codes,
6301 which are both different from the "normal" rxvt's acsc.
6302 (cygwin): cygwin-in-cmd.exe window. Lots of fixes.
6304 + mk-1st.awk: use "cyg" for the DLL prefix, but "lib" for import
6308 + update config.guess, config.sub
6309 + add triples for configuring shared libraries with the Debian
6310 GNU/FreeBSD packages (patch by Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>).
6313 + modify CF_GCC_WARNINGS so it only applies to gcc, not g++. Some
6314 platforms have installed g++ along with the native C compiler, which
6315 would not accept gcc warning options.
6316 + add -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 when configuring with --enable-widec, to
6317 get mbstate_t declaration on HPUX 11.11 (report by David Ellement).
6318 + add _nc_pathlast() to get rid of casts in _nc_basename() calls.
6319 + correct a sign-extension in wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() from
6320 20030628 (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
6321 + work around omission of btowc() and wctob() from wide-character
6322 support (sic) in NetBSD 1.6 using mbtowc() and wctomb() (report by
6324 + add portability note to curs_get_wstr.3x (Debian #199957).
6327 + rewrite wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to call waddch() and wechochar()
6328 respectively, to avoid calling waddch_noecho() with wide-character
6329 data, since that function assumes its input is 8-bit data.
6330 Similarly, modify waddnwstr() to call wadd_wch().
6331 + remove logic from waddnstr() which transformed multibyte character
6332 strings into wide-characters. Rewrite of waddch_literal() from
6333 20030621 assumes its input is raw multibyte data rather than wide
6334 characters (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
6337 + write getyx() and related 2-return macros in terms of getcury(),
6339 + modify waddch_literal() in case an application passes bytes of a
6340 multibyte character directly to waddch(). In this case, waddch()
6341 must reassemble the bytes into a wide-character (report by Tomohiro
6342 Kubota <kubota@debian.org>).
6345 + modify waddch_literal() in case a multibyte value occupies more than
6347 + modify PutAttrChar() to compute the number of character cells that
6348 are used in multibyte values. This fixes a problem displaying
6349 double-width characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen
6350 <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
6351 + add a null-pointer check for result of keyname() in _tracechar()
6352 + modify _tracechar() to work around glibc sprintf bug.
6355 + add a call to setlocale() in cursesmain.cc, making demo display
6356 properly in a UTF-8 locale.
6357 + add a fallback definition in curses.priv.h for MB_LEN_MAX (prompted
6358 by discussion with Gabor Z Papp).
6359 + use macros NCURSES_ACS() and NCURSES_WACS() to hide cast needed to
6360 appease -Wchar-subscript with g++ 3.3 (Debian #195732).
6361 + fix a redefinition of $RANLIB in the configure script when libtool
6362 is used, which broke configure on Mac OS X (report by Chris Zubrzycki
6364 + simplify ifdef for bool declaration in curses.h.in (suggested by
6365 Albert Chin-A-Young).
6366 + remove configure script check to allow -Wconversion for older
6367 versions of gcc (suggested by Albert Chin-A-Young).
6370 + regenerated html manpages.
6371 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in that disabled use of __attribute__()
6372 for g++, since recent versions implement the cases which ncurses uses
6374 + modify _nc_get_token() to handle a case where an entry has no
6375 description, and capabilities begin on the same line as the entry
6377 + fix a typo in ncurses_dll.h reported by gcc 3.3.
6378 + add an entry for key_defined.3x to man_db.renames.
6381 + modify setcchar() to allow converting control characters to complex
6382 characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
6383 + add tkterm entry -TD
6384 + modify parse_entry.c to allow a terminfo entry with a leading
6385 2-character name (report by Don Libes).
6386 + corrected acsc in screen.teraterm, which requires a PC-style mapping.
6387 + fix trace statements in read_entry.c to use lseek() rather than
6389 + fix signed/unsigned warnings from Sun's compiler (gcc should give
6390 these warnings, but it is unpredictable).
6391 + modify configure script to omit -Winline for gcc 3.3, since that
6393 + modify manlinks.sed to add a few functions that were overlooked since
6394 they return function pointers: field_init, field_term, form_init,
6395 form_term, item_init, item_term, menu_init and menu_term.
6398 + prevent recursion in wgetch() via wgetnstr() if the connection cannot
6399 be switched between cooked/raw modes because it is not a TTY (report
6400 by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.com>).
6401 + change parameter of define_key() and key_defined() to const (prompted
6403 + add a check in test/configure for ncurses extensions, since there
6404 are some older versions, etc., which would not compile with the
6405 current test programs.
6406 + corrected demo in test/ncurses.c of wgetn_wstr(), which did not
6407 convert wchar_t string to multibyte form before printing it.
6408 + corrections to lib_get_wstr.c:
6409 + null-terminate buffer passed to setcchar(), which occasionally
6411 + map special characters such as erase- and kill-characters into
6412 key-codes so those will work as expected even if they are not
6413 mentioned in the terminfo.
6414 + modify PUTC() and Charable() macros to make wide-character line
6415 drawing work for POSIX locale on Linux console (cf: 20021221).
6418 + make typography for program options in manpages consistent (report
6419 by Miloslav Trmac <mitr@volny.cz>).
6420 + correct dependencies in Ada95/src/Makefile.in, so the builds with
6421 "--srcdir" work (report by Warren L Dodge).
6422 + correct missing definition of $(CC) in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in
6423 (reported by Warren L Dodge <warrend@mdhost.cse.tek.com>).
6424 + fix typos and whitespace in manpages (patch by Jason McIntyre
6425 <jmc@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl>).
6428 + fix form_driver() cases for REQ_CLR_EOF, REQ_CLR_EOL, REQ_DEL_CHAR,
6429 REQ_DEL_PREV and REQ_NEW_LINE, which did not ensure the cursor was at
6430 the editing position before making modifications.
6431 + add test/demo_forms and associated test/edit_field.c demos.
6432 + modify test/configure.in to use test/modules for the list of objects
6433 to compile rather than using the list of programs.
6436 + modify logic of acsc to use the original character if no mapping is
6437 defined, noting that Solaris does this.
6438 + modify ncurses 'b' test to avoid using the acs_map[] array since
6439 20021231 changes it to no longer contain information from the acsc
6441 + modify makefile rules in c++, progs, tack and test to ensure that
6442 the compiler flags (e.g., $CFLAGS or $CCFLAGS) are used in the link
6443 command (report by Jose Luis Rico Botella <informatica@serpis.com>).
6444 + modify soft-key initialization to use A_REVERSE if A_STANDOUT would
6445 not be shown when colors are used, i.e., if ncv#1 is set in the
6446 terminfo as is done in "screen".
6449 + add a test for slk_color(), in ncurses.c
6450 + fix some issues reported by valgrind in the slk_set() and slk_wset()
6451 code, from recent rewrite.
6452 + modify ncurses 'E' test to use show previous label via slk_label(),
6454 + modify wide-character versions of NewChar(), NewChar2() macros to
6455 ensure that the whole struct is initialized.
6458 + modify setupterm() to check if the terminfo and terminal-modes have
6459 already been read. This ensures that it does not reinvoke
6460 def_prog_mode() when an application calls more than one function,
6461 such as tgetent() and initscr() (report by Olaf Buddenhagen).
6464 + add 'E' test to ncurses.c, to exercise slk_wset().
6465 + correct handling of carriage-return in wgetn_wstr(), used in demo of
6467 + first draft of slk_wset() function.
6470 + improved warnings in tic when suppressing items to fit in termcap's
6472 + built a list in test/README showing which externals are being used
6473 by either programs in the test-directory or via internal library
6475 + adjust include-options in CF_ETIP_DEFINES to avoid missing
6476 ncurses_dll.h, fixing special definitions that may be needed for
6477 etip.h (reported by Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au>).
6480 + minor fixes for cardfile.c, to make it write the updated fields to
6481 a file when ^W is given.
6482 + add/use _nc_trace_bufcat() to eliminate some fixed buffer limits in
6486 + correct a case in _nc_remove_string(), used by define_key(), to avoid
6487 infinite loop if the given string happens to be a substring of other
6488 strings which are assigned to keys (report by John McCutchan).
6489 + add key_defined() function, to tell which keycode a string is bound
6490 to (discussion with John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>).
6491 + correct keybound(), which reported definitions in the wrong table,
6492 i.e., the list of definitions which are disabled by keyok().
6493 + modify demo_keydef.c to show the details it changes, and to check
6497 + restructured test/configure script, make it work for libncursesw.
6498 + add description of link_fieldtype() to manpage (report by
6499 L Dee Holtsclaw <dee@sunbeltsoft.com>).
6502 + corrected ifdef's relating to configure check for wchar_t, etc.
6503 + if the output is a socket or other non-tty device, use 1 millisecond
6504 for the cost in mvcur; previously it was 9 milliseconds because the
6505 baudrate was not known.
6506 + in _nc_get_tty_mode(), initialize the TTY buffer on error, since
6507 glibc copies uninitialized data in that case, as noted by valgrind.
6508 + modify tput to use the same parameter analysis as tparm() does, to
6509 provide for user-defined strings, e.g., for xterm title, a
6510 corresponding capability might be
6512 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid passing "#" tokens through the C
6513 preprocessor. This works around Mac OS X's preprocessor, which
6514 insists on adding a blank on each side of the token (report/analysis
6515 by Kevin Murphy <murphy@genome.chop.edu>).
6518 + add configure check for wchar_t and wint_t types, rather than rely
6519 on preprocessor definitions. Also work around for gcc fixinclude
6520 bug which creates a shadow copy of curses.h if it sees these symbols
6521 apparently typedef'd.
6522 + if database is disabled, do not generate run_tic.sh
6523 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking when termcap is read.
6526 + add checking in tic for incomplete line-drawing character mapping.
6527 + updated configure script to reflect fix for AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL,
6528 which is broken in autoconf 2.5x for Mac OS X 10.2.3 (report by
6529 Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl>).
6530 + make return value from _nc_printf_string() consistent. Before,
6531 depending on whether --enable-safe-sprintf was used, it might not be
6532 cached for reallocating.
6535 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking in lib_tparm.c, hardscroll.c
6536 + correct a potentially-uninitialized value if _read_termtype() does
6537 not read as much data as expected (report by Wolfgang Rohdewald
6539 + correct several places where the aclocal.m4 macros relied on cache
6540 variable names which were incompatible (as usual) between autoconf
6541 2.13 and 2.5x, causing the test for broken-linker to give incorrect
6542 results (reports by Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl> and Thomas Esser
6543 <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>).
6544 + do not try to open gpm mouse driver if standard output is not a tty;
6545 the gpm library does not make this check (bug report for dialog
6546 by David Oliveira <davidoliveira@develop.prozone.ws>).
6549 + modified emx.src to correspond more closely to terminfo.src, added
6550 emx-base to the latter -TD
6551 + add configure option for FreeBSD sysmouse, --with-sysmouse, and
6552 implement support for that in lib_mouse.c, lib_getch.c
6555 + revert 20030105 change to can_clear_with(), does not work for the
6556 case where the update is made on cells which are blanks with
6557 attributes, e.g., reverse.
6558 + improve ifdef's to guard against redefinition of wchar_t and wint_t
6559 in curses.h (report by Urs Jansen).
6562 + improve mvcur() by checking if it is safe to move when video
6563 attributes are set (msgr), and if not, reset/restore attributes
6564 within that function rather than doing it separately in the GoTo()
6565 function in tty_update.c (suggested by Philippe Blain).
6566 + add a message in run_tic.in to explain more clearly what does not
6567 work when attempting to create a symbolic link for /usr/lib/terminfo
6568 on OS/2 and other platforms with no symbolic links (report by John
6570 + change several sed scripts to avoid using "\+" since it is not a BRE
6571 (basic regular expression). One instance caused terminfo.5 to be
6572 misformatted on FreeBSD (report by Kazuo Horikawa
6573 <horikawa@FreeBSD.org> (see FreeBSD docs/46709)).
6574 + correct misspelled 'wint_t' in curs_get_wch.3x (Michael Elkins).
6577 + improve description of terminfo operators, especially static/dynamic
6578 variables (comments by Mark I Manning IV <mark4th@earthlink.net>).
6579 + demonstrate use of FIELDTYPE by modifying test/ncurses 'r' test to
6580 use the predefined TYPE_ALPHA field-type, and by defining a
6581 specialized type for the middle initial/name.
6582 + fix MKterminfo.sh, another workaround for POSIXLY_CORRECT misfeature
6584 > patch by Philippe Blain:
6585 + optimize can_clear_with() a little by testing first if the parameter
6586 is indeed a "blank".
6587 + simplify ClrBottom() a little by allowing it to use clr_eos to clear
6588 sections as small as one line.
6589 + improve ClrToEOL() by checking if clr_eos is available before trying
6591 + use tputs() rather than putp() in a few cases in tty_update.c since
6592 the corresponding delays are proportional to the number of lines
6593 affected: repeat_char, clr_eos, change_scroll_region.
6596 + rewrite of lib_acs.c conflicts with copying of SCREEN acs_map to/from
6597 global acs_map[] array; removed the lines that did the copying.
6600 + change some overlooked tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp()
6601 (report by Philippe Blain).
6602 + modify lib_getch.c to avoid recursion via wgetnstr() when the input
6603 is not a tty and consequently mode-changes do not work (report by
6604 <R.Chamberlin@querix.com>).
6605 + rewrote lib_acs.c to allow PutAttrChar() to decide how to render
6606 alternate-characters, i.e., to work with Linux console and UTF-8
6608 + correct line/column reference in adjust_window(), needed to make
6609 special windows such as curscr track properly when resizing (report
6610 by Lucas Gonze <lgonze@panix.com>).
6611 > patch by Philippe Blain:
6612 + correct the value used for blank in ClrBottom() (broken in 20000708).
6613 + correct an off-by-one in GoTo() parameter in _nc_scrolln().
6616 + change several tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp(), to
6617 enable padding which may be needed for some terminals (patch by
6619 + use '%' as sed substitute delimiter in run_tic script to avoid
6620 problems with pathname delimiters such as ':' and '@' (report by John
6622 + implement a workaround so that line-drawing works with screen's
6623 crippled UTF-8 support (tested with 3.9.13). This only works with
6624 the wide-character support (--enable-widec); the normal library will
6625 simply suppress line-drawing when running in a UTF-8 locale in screen.
6628 + allow BUILD_CC and related configure script variables to be
6629 overridden from the environment.
6630 + make build-tools variables in ncurses/Makefile.in consistent with
6631 the configure script variables (report by Maciej W Rozycki).
6632 + modify ncurses/modules to allow
6633 configure --disable-leaks --disable-ext-funcs
6634 to build (report by Gary Samuelson).
6635 + fix a few places in configure.in which lacked quotes (report by
6636 Gary Samuelson <gary.samuelson@verizon.com>).
6637 + correct handling of multibyte characters in waddch_literal() which
6638 force wrapping because they are started too late on the line (report
6639 by Sam Varshavchik).
6640 + small fix for CF_GNAT_VERSION to ignore the help-message which
6641 gnatmake adds to its version-message.
6642 > Maciej W Rozycki <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>:
6643 + use AC_CHECK_TOOL to get proper values for AR and LD for cross
6645 + use $cross_compiling variable in configure script rather than
6646 comparing $host_alias and $target alias, since "host" is
6647 traditionally misused in autoconf to refer to the target platform.
6648 + change configure --help message to use "build" rather than "host"
6649 when referring to the --with-build-XXX options.
6652 + modify CF_GNAT_VERSION to print gnatmake's version, and to allow for
6653 possible gnat versions such as 3.2 (report by Chris Lingard
6654 <chris@stockwith.co.uk>).
6655 + modify #define's for CKILL and other default control characters in
6656 tset to use the system's default values if they are defined.
6657 + correct interchanged defaults for kill and interrupt characters
6658 in tset, which caused it to report unnecessarily (Debian #171583).
6659 + repair check for missing C++ compiler, which is broken in autoconf
6660 2.5x by hardcoding it to g++ (report by Martin Mokrejs).
6661 + update config.guess, config.sub (2002-11-30)
6662 + modify configure script to skip --with-shared, etc., when the
6663 --with-libtool option is given, since they would be ignored anyway.
6664 + fix to allow "configure --with-libtool --with-termlib" to build.
6665 + modify configure script to show version number of libtool, to help
6666 with bug reports. libtool still gets confused if the installed
6667 ncurses libraries are old, since it ignores the -L options at some
6668 point (tested with libtool 1.3.3 and 1.4.3).
6669 + reorder configure script's updating of $CPPFLAGS and $CFLAGS to
6670 prevent -I options in the user's environment from introducing
6671 conflicts with the build -I options (may be related to reports by
6672 Patrick Ash and George Goffe).
6673 + rename test/define_key.c to test/demo_defkey.c, test/keyok.c to
6674 test/demo_keyok.c to allow building these with libtool.
6677 + add example program test/define_key.c for define_key().
6678 + add example program test/keyok.c for keyok().
6679 + add example program test/ins_wide.c for wins_wch() and wins_wstr().
6680 + modify wins_wch() and wins_wstr() to interpret tabs by using the
6681 winsch() internal function.
6682 + modify setcchar() to allow for wchar_t input strings that have
6683 more than one spacing character.
6686 + fix a boundary check in lib_insch.c (patch by Philippe Blain).
6687 + change type for *printw functions from NCURSES_CONST to const
6688 (prompted by comment by Pedro Palhoto Matos <plpm@mega.ist.utl.pt>,
6689 but really from a note on X/Open's website stating that either is
6690 acceptable, and the latter will be used in a future revision).
6691 + add xterm-1002, xterm-1003 terminfo entries to demonstrate changes in
6692 lib_mouse.c (20021026) -TD
6693 + add screen-bce, screen-s entries from screen 3.9.13 (report by
6694 Adam Lazur <zal@debian.org>) -TD
6695 + add mterm terminfo entries -TD
6698 + split-out useful fragments in terminfo for vt100 and vt220 numeric
6699 keypad, i.e., vt100+keypad, vt100+pfkeys, vt100+fnkeys and
6700 vt220+keypad. The last as embedded in various entries had ka3 and
6701 kb2 interchanged (report/discussion with Leonard den Ottolander
6702 <leonardjo@hetnet.nl>).
6703 + add check in tic for keypads consistent with vt100 layout.
6704 + improve checks in tic for color capabilities
6707 + check for missing/empty/illegal terminfo name in _nc_read_entry()
6708 (report by Martin Mokrejs, where $TERM was set to an empty string).
6709 + rewrote lib_insch.c, combining it with lib_insstr.c so both handle
6710 tab and other control characters consistently (report by Philippe
6712 + remove an #undef for KEY_EVENT from curses.tail used in the
6713 experimental NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS feature. The #undef confuses
6714 dpkg's build script (Debian #165897).
6715 + fix MKlib_gen.sh, working around the ironically named POSIXLY_CORRECT
6716 feature of GNU sed 4.0 (reported by Ervin Nemeth <airwin@inf.bme.hu>).
6719 + implement logic in lib_mouse.c to handle position reports which are
6720 generated when XFree86 xterm is initialized with private modes 1002
6721 or 1003. These are returned to the application as the
6722 REPORT_MOUSE_POSITION mask, which was not implemented. Tested both
6723 with ncurses 'a' menu (prompted by discussion with Larry Riedel
6724 <Larry@Riedel.org>).
6725 + modify lib_mouse.c to look for "XM" terminfo string, which allows
6726 one to override the escape sequence used to enable/disable mouse
6727 mode. In particular this works for XFree86 xterm private modes
6728 1002 and 1003. If "XM" is missing (note that this is an extended
6729 name), lib_mouse uses the conventional private mode 1000.
6730 + correct NOT_LOCAL() macro in lib_mvcur.c to refer to screen_columns
6731 where it used screen_lines (report by Philippe Blain).
6732 + correct makefile rules for the case when both --with-libtool and
6733 --with-gpm are given (report by Mr E_T <troll@logi.net.au>).
6734 + add note to terminfo manpage regarding the differences between
6735 setaf/setab and setf/setb capabilities (report by Pavel Roskin).
6738 + remove redundant initialization of TABSIZE in newterm(), since it is
6739 already done in setupterm() (report by Philippe Blain).
6740 + add test/inserts.c, to test winnstr() and winsch().
6741 + replace 'sort' in dist.mk with script that sets locale to POSIX.
6742 + update URLs in announce.html.in (patch by Frederic L W Meunier).
6743 + remove glibc add-on files, which are no longer needed (report by
6744 Frederic L W Meunier).
6746 20021012 5.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
6747 + modify ifdef's in etip.h.in to allow the etip.h header to compile
6748 with gcc 3.2 (patch by Dimitar Zhekov <jimmy@is-vn.bg>).
6749 + add logic to setupterm() to make it like initscr() and newterm(),
6750 by checking for $NCURSES_TRACE environment variable and enabling
6751 the debug trace in that case.
6752 + modify setupterm() to ensure that it initializes the baudrate, for
6753 applications such as tput (report by Frank Henigman).
6754 + modify definition of bits used for command-line and library debug
6755 traces to avoid overlap, using new definition TRACE_SHIFT to relate
6757 + document tput's interpretation of parameterized strings according to
6758 whether parameters are given, etc. (discussion with Robert De Bath).
6760 20021005 pre-release
6761 + correct winnwstr() to account for non-character cells generated when
6762 a double-width character is added (report by Michael Bienia
6763 <michael@vorlon.ping.de>).
6764 + modify _nc_viswbuf2n() to provide better results using wctomb().
6765 + correct logic in _nc_varargs() which broke tracing of parameters for
6766 formats such as "%.*s".
6767 + correct scale factor in linux-c and linux-c-nc terminfo entries
6768 (report Floyd Davidson).
6769 + change tic -A option to -t, add the same option to infocmp for
6771 + correct "%c" implementation in lib_tparm.c, which did not map a null
6772 character to a 128 (cf: 980620) (patch by Frank Henigman
6773 <fjhenigman@mud.cgl.uwaterloo.ca>).
6775 20020928 pre-release
6776 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for POSIX sort -k option, use that if
6777 it is found, to accommodate newer utility which dropped the
6778 compatibility support for +number options (reported by Andrey A
6780 + modify linux terminfo entry to use color palette feature from
6781 linux-c-nc entry (comments by Tomasz Wasiak and Floyd Davidson).
6782 + restore original color definitions in endwin() if init_color() was
6783 used, and resume those colors on the next doupdate() or refresh()
6784 (report by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@komputom.com.pl>).
6785 + improve debug-traces by modifying MKlib_gen.sh to generate calls
6786 to returnBool() and returnAttr().
6787 + add/use _nc_visbufn() and _nc_viswbufn() to limit the debug trace
6788 of waddnstr() and similar functions to match the parameters as used.
6789 + add/use _nc_retrace_bool() and _nc_retrace_unsigned().
6790 + correct type used by _nc_retrace_chtype().
6791 + add debug traces to some functions in lib_mouse.c
6792 + modify lib_addch.c to handle non-spacing characters.
6793 + correct parameter of RemAttr() in lib_bkgd.c, which caused the c++
6794 demo's boxes to lose the A_ALTCHARSET flag (broken in 20020629).
6795 + correct width computed in _tracedump(), which did not account for
6796 the attributes (broken in 20010602).
6797 + modify test/tracemunch to replace addresses for windows other than
6798 curscr, newscr and stdscr with window0, window1, etc.
6800 20020921 pre-release
6801 + redid fix for edit_man.sed path.
6802 + workaround for Cygwin bug which makes subprocess writes to stdout
6803 result in core dump.
6804 + documented getbegx(), etc.
6805 + minor fixes to configure script to use '%' consistently as a sed
6806 delimiter rather than '@'.
6807 > patch by Philippe Blain:
6808 + add check in lib_overlay.c to ensure that the windows to be merged
6809 actually overlap, and in copywin(), limit the area to be touched
6810 to the lines given for the destination window.
6812 20020914 pre-release
6813 + modified curses.h so that if the wide-character version is installed
6814 overwriting /usr/include/curses.h, and if it relied on libutf8.h,
6815 then applications that use that header for wide-character support
6816 must define HAVE_LIBUTF8_H.
6817 + modify putwin(), getwin() and dupwin() to allow them to operate on
6818 pads (request by Philippe Blain).
6819 + correct attribute-merging in wborder(), broken in 20020216 (report
6820 by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@grubasek.komputom.com.pl>).
6821 > patch by Philippe Blain:
6822 + corrected pop-counts in tparam_internal() to '!' and '~' cases.
6823 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in one place that used sizeof(chtype).
6824 + remove some unused variables from mvcur test-driver.
6826 20020907 pre-release
6827 + change configure script to allow install of widec-character
6828 (ncursesw) headers to overwrite normal (ncurses) headers, since the
6829 latter is a compatible subset of the former.
6830 + fix path of edit_man.sed in configure script, needed to regenerate
6831 html manpages on Debian.
6832 + fix mismatched enums in vsscanf.c, which caused warning on Solaris.
6833 + update README.emx to reflect current patch used for autoconf.
6834 + change web- and ftp-site to invisible-island.net
6835 > patch by Philippe Blain:
6836 + change case for 'P' in tparam_internal() to indicate that it pops
6837 a variable from the stack.
6838 + correct sense of precision and width in parse_format(), to avoid
6840 + modify lib_tparm.c, absorb really_get_space() into get_space().
6841 + modify getwin() and dupwin() to copy the _notimeout, _idlok and
6842 _idcok window fields.
6843 + better fix for _nc_set_type(), using typeMalloc().
6845 20020901 pre-release
6846 + change minor version to 3, i.e., ncurses 5.3
6847 + update config.guess, config.sub
6848 + retest build with each configure option; minor ifdef fixes.
6849 + make keyname() return a null pointer rather than "UNKNOWN STRING" to
6851 + modify handling of wide line-drawing character functions to use the
6852 normal line-drawing characters when not in UTF-8 locale.
6853 + add check/fix to comp_parse.c to suppress warning about missing acsc
6854 string. This happens in configurations where raw termcap information
6855 is processed; tic already does this and other checks.
6856 + modify tic's check for ich/ich1 versus rmir/smir to only warn about
6857 ich1, to match xterm patch #70 notes.
6858 + moved information for ripped-off lines into SCREEN struct to allow
6859 use in resizeterm().
6860 + add experimental wgetch_events(), ifdef'd with NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS
6861 (adapted from patch by Ilya Zakharevich - see ncurses/README.IZ).
6862 + amend check in kgetch() from 20020824 to look only for function-keys,
6863 otherwise escape sequences are not resolved properly.
6864 > patch by Philippe Blain:
6865 + removed redundant assignment to SP->_checkfd from newterm().
6866 + check return-value of setupterm() in restartterm().
6867 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in a few places that used sizeof(chtype).
6868 + prevent dupwin() from duplicating a pad.
6869 + prevent putwin() from writing a pad.
6870 + use typeRealloc() or typeMalloc() in preference to direct calls on
6874 + add a check in kgetch() for cooked characters in the fifo to avoid
6875 calling fifo_push() when a KEY_RESIZE is available (report/analysis
6876 by Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>).
6877 + fix an overlooked case for Redhat #68199 (Philippe Blain).
6878 + ensure clearerr() is called before using ferror() e.g., in
6879 lib_screen.c (report by Philippe Blain).
6882 + modify lib_screen.c and lib_newwin.c to maintain the SCREEN-specific
6883 pointers for curscr/stdscr/newscr when scr_save() and scr_restore()
6884 modify the global curscr/stdscr/newscr variables. Fixes Redhat
6886 + add checks for null pointer in calls to tparm() and tgoto() based on
6887 FreeBSD bug report. If ncurses were built with termcap support, and
6888 the first call to tgoto() were a zero-length string, the result would
6889 be a null pointer, which was not handled properly.
6890 + correct a typo in terminfo.head, which gave the octal code for colon
6892 + remove the "tic -u" option from 20020810, since it did not account
6893 for nested "tc=" clauses, and when that was addressed, was still
6897 + add tic -A option to suppress capabilities which are commented out
6898 when translating to termcap.
6899 + add tic -u option to provide older behavior of "tc=" clauses.
6900 + modified tic to expand all but the final "tc=" clause in a termcap
6901 entry, to accommodate termcap libraries which do not handle multiple
6903 + correct typo in curs_inopts.3x regarding CS8/CS7 usage (report by
6905 + remove a couple of redundant uses of A_ATTRIBUTES in expressions
6906 using AttrOf(), which already incorporates that mask (report by
6908 + document TABSIZE variable.
6909 + add NCURSES_ASSUMED_COLORS environment variable, to allow users to
6910 override compiled-in default black-on-white assumption used in
6911 assume_default_colors().
6912 + correct an off-by-one comparison against max_colors in COLORFGBG
6914 + correct a use of uninitialized memory found by valgrind (reported by
6915 Olaf Buddenhagen <olafBuddenhagen@web.de>).
6916 + modified wresize() to ensure that a failed realloc will not corrupt
6917 the window structure, and to make subwindows fit within the resized
6918 window (completes Debian #87678, Debian #101699)
6921 + fix an off-by-one in lib_pad.c check for limits of pad (patch by
6923 + revise logic for BeOS in lib_twait.c altered in 20011013 to restore
6924 logic used by lib_getch.c's support for GPM or EMX mouse (report by
6926 + remove NCURSES_CONST from several prototypes in curses.wide, to make
6927 the --enable-const --enable-widec configure options to work together
6928 (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@yahoo.com>).
6931 + finish no-leak checking in cardfile.c, using this for testing changes
6933 + simplify _nc_freeall() using delscreen().
6936 + check error-return from _nc_set_tty_mode() in _nc_initscr() and
6937 reset_prog_mode() (report/patch by Philippe Blain).
6938 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52, to address
6939 problem with identifying C++ bool type.
6940 + correct/improve logic to produce an exit status for errors in tput,
6941 which did not exit with an error when told to put a string not in the
6942 current terminfo entry (report by David Gomez <david@pleyades.net>).
6943 + modify configure script AC_OUTPUT() call to work around defect in
6944 autoconf 2.52 which adds an ifdef'd include to the generated
6945 configure definitions.
6946 + remove fstat() check from scr_init(), which also fixes a missing
6947 include for <sys/stat.h> from 20020713 (reported by David Ellement,
6948 fix suggested by Philippe Blain).
6949 + update curs_scanw.3x manpage to note that XSI curses differs from
6950 SVr4 curses: return-values are incompatible.
6951 + correct several prototypes in manpages which used const
6952 inconsistently with the curses.h file, and removed spurious const's
6953 in a few places from curses.h, e.g., for wbkgd() (report by Glenn
6954 Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>).
6955 + change internal type used by tparm() to long, to work with LP64 model.
6956 + modify nc_alloc.h to allow building with g++, for testing.
6959 + add resize-handling to cardfile.c test program.
6960 + altered resizeterm() to avoid having it fail when a child window
6961 cannot be resized because it would be larger than its parent. (More
6962 work must be done on this, but it works well enough to integrate).
6963 + improve a limit-check in lib_refresh.c
6964 + remove check in lib_screen.c relating dumptime to file's modification
6965 times, since that would not necessarily work for remotely mounted
6967 + modify lrtest to simplify debugging changes to resizeterm, e.g.,
6968 t/T commands to enable/disable tracing.
6969 + updated status of multibyte support in TO-DO.
6970 + update contact info in source-files (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6973 + add Caps.hpux11, as an example.
6974 + modify version_filter(), used to implement -R option for tic and
6975 infocmp, to use computed array offsets based on the Caps.* file which
6976 is actually configured, rather than constants which correspond to
6978 + reorganized lib_raw.c to avoid updating SP and cur_term state if the
6979 functions fail (reported by Philippe Blain).
6980 + add -Wundef to gcc warnings, adjust a few ifdef's to accommodate gcc.
6983 + correct parameters to setcchar() in ncurses.c (cf: 20020406).
6984 + set locale in most test programs (view.c and ncurses.c were the
6986 + add configure option --with-build-cppflags (report by Maksim A
6987 Nikulin <M.A.Nikulin@inp.nsk.su>).
6988 + correct a typo in wide-character logic for lib_bkgnd.c (Philippe
6990 + modify lib_wacs.c to not cancel the acsc, smacs, rmacs strings when
6991 in UTF-8 locale. Wide-character functions use Unicode values, while
6992 narrow-character functions use the terminfo data.
6993 + fix a couple of places in Ada95/samples which did not compile with
6995 + modify mkinstalldirs so the DOS-pathname case is locale-independent.
6996 + fix locale problem in MKlib_gen.sh by forcing related variables to
6997 POSIX (C), using same approach as autoconf (set variables only if
6998 they were set before). Update MKterminfo.sh and MKtermsort.sh to
7002 + add charset to generated html.
7003 + add mvterm entry, adapted from a FreeBSD bug-report by Daniel Rudy
7004 <dcrudy@pacbell.net> -TD
7005 + add rxvt-16color, ibm+16color entries -TD
7006 + modify check in --disable-overwrite option so that it is used by
7007 default unless the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr, in attempt to
7008 work around packagers, e.g., for Sun's freeware, who do not read the
7012 + modify wgetch() to allow returning ungetch'd KEY_RESIZE as a function
7013 key code in get_wch().
7014 + extended resize-handling in test/ncurses 'a' menu to the entire
7015 stack of windows created with 'w' commands.
7016 + improve $COLORFGBG feature by interpreting an out-of-range color
7017 value as an SGR 39 or 49, for foreground/background respectively.
7018 + correct a typo in configure --enable-colorfgbg option, and move it
7019 to the experimental section (cf: 20011208).
7022 + add logic to dump_entry.c to remove function-key definitions that do
7023 not fit into the 1023-byte limit for generated termcaps. This makes
7025 + more improvements to tic's warnings, including logic to ignore
7026 differences between delay values in sgr strings.
7027 + move definition of KEY_RESIZE into MKkeydefs.sh script, to
7028 accommodate Caps.osf1r5 which introduced a conflicting definition.
7031 + add simple resize-handling in test/ncurses.c 'a' menu.
7032 + fixes in keyname() and _tracechar() to handle negative values.
7033 + make tic's warnings about mismatches in sgr strings easier to follow.
7034 + correct tic checks for number of parameters in smgbp and smglp.
7035 + improve scoansi terminfo entry, and add scoansi-new entry -TD
7036 + add pcvt25-color terminfo entry -TD
7037 + add kf13-kf48 strings to cons25w terminfo entry (reported by Stephen
7038 Hurd <deuce@lordlegacy.org> in newsgroup lucky.freebsd.bugs) -TD
7039 + add entrypoint _nc_trace_ttymode(), use this to distinguish the
7040 Ottyb and Nttyb members of terminal (aka cur_term), for tracing.
7043 + correct and simplify logic for lib_pad.c change in 20020518 (reported
7047 + fix lib_pad.c for case of drawing a double-width character which
7048 falls off the left margin of the pad (patch by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij
7049 <lerdsuwa@users.sourceforge.net>)
7050 + modify configure script to work around broken gcc 3.1 "--version"
7051 option, which adds unnecessary trash to the requested information.
7052 + adjust ifdef's in case SIGWINCH is not defined, e.g., with DJGPP
7053 (reported by Ben Decker <deckerben@freenet.de>).
7056 + implement vid_puts(), vid_attr(), term_attrs() based on the narrow-
7057 character versions as well.
7058 + implement erasewchar(), killwchar() based on erasechar() and
7060 + modify erasechar() and killchar() to return ERR if the value was
7062 + correct a bug in wresize() in handling subwindows (based on patch by
7063 Roger Gammans <rgammans@computer-surgery.co.uk>, report by Scott Beck
7064 <scott@gossamer-threads.com>).
7065 + improve test/tclock.c by making the second-hand update more often
7066 if gettimeofday() is available.
7069 + workaround for Solaris sed with MKlib_gen.sh (reported by Andy
7070 Tsouladze <andyt@mypoints.com>).
7073 + correct return-value from getcchar(), making it consistent with
7075 + reorder loops that generate makefile rules for different models vs
7076 subsets so configure --with-termlib works again. This was broken by
7077 logic added to avoid duplicate rules in changes to accommodate cygwin
7078 dll's (reported by George.R.Goffe@seagate.com).
7079 + update config.guess, config.sub
7082 + modify ifdef's in write_entry.c to allow use of symbolic links on
7083 platforms with no hard links, e.g., BeOS.
7084 + modify a few includes to allow compile with BeOS, which has stdbool.h
7085 with a conflicting definition for 'bool' versus its OS.h definition.
7086 + amend MKlib_gen.sh to work with gawk, which defines 'func' as an
7087 alias for 'function'.
7090 + correct form of prototype for ripoffline().
7091 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to test that all functions marked as implemented
7095 + add manpages: curs_get_wstr.3x, curs_in_wchstr.3x
7096 + implement wgetn_wstr().
7097 + implement win_wchnstr().
7098 + remove redefinition of unget_wch() in lib_gen.c (reported by
7099 Jungshik Shin <jshin@jtan.com>).
7102 + modified several of the test programs to allow them to compile with
7103 vendor curses implementations, e.g., Solaris, AIX -TD
7106 + modified test/configure to allow configuring against ncursesw.
7107 + change WACS_xxx definition to use address, to work like Tru64 curses.
7110 + add 'e' and 'm' toggles to 'a', 'A' tests in ncurses.c to demonstrate
7111 effect of echo/noecho and meta modes.
7112 + add 'A' test to ncurses.c to demonstrate wget_wch() and related
7114 + add manpage: curs_get_wch.3x
7115 + implement unget_wch().
7116 + implement wget_wch().
7119 + regenerated html manpages.
7120 + add manpages: curs_in_wch.3x, curs_ins_wch.3x, curs_ins_wstr.3x
7121 + implement wins_wch().
7122 + implement win_wch().
7123 + implement wins_nwstr(), wins_wstr().
7126 + add manpages: curs_addwstr.3x, curs_winwstr.3x
7127 + implement winnwstr(), winwstr().
7130 + add manpages: curs_add_wchstr.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x
7131 + document wunctrl, key_name.
7132 + implement key_name().
7133 + remove const's in lib_box.c incorrectly leftover after splitting off
7135 + update llib-lncurses, llib-ncursesw, fix configure script related to
7139 + remove quotes on "SYNOPSIS" in man/curs_box_set.3x, which resulted
7140 in spurious symlinks on install.
7143 + implement whline_set(), wvline_set(), add manpage curs_border_set.
7144 + add subtest 'b' to 'F' and 'f' in ncurses.c to demonstrate use of
7145 box() and box_set() functions.
7146 + add subtest 'u' to 'F' in ncurses.c, to demonstrate use of addstr()
7147 given UTF-8 string equivalents of WACS_xxx symbols.
7148 + minor fixes to several manpages based on groff -ww output.
7149 + add descriptions of external variables of termcap interface to
7150 the manpage (report by Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>).
7151 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
7152 + correct configure option --with-bool, which was executed as
7154 + add quotes for parameters of --with-bool and --with-ospeed configure
7156 > patch by Sven Verdoolaege (report by Gerhard Haering
7157 <haering_linux@gmx.de>):
7158 + correct typos in definitions of several wide-character macros:
7159 waddwstr, wgetbkgrnd, mvaddwstr, mvwadd_wchnstr, mvwadd_wchnstr,
7161 + pass $(CPPFLAGS) to MKlib_gen.sh, thereby fixing a missing definition
7162 of _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, e.g., on Solaris
7165 + implement wide-acs characters for UTF-8 locales. When in UTF-8
7166 locale, ignore narrow version of acs. Add 'F' test to test/ncurses.c
7168 + correct prototype in keybound manpage (noted from a Debian mailing
7172 + add several cases to the wscanw() example in testcurs.c, showing the
7174 + implement a simple vsscanf() fallback function which uses the %n
7175 conversion to help parse the input data (prompted by discussion with
7176 Albert Chin-A-Young).
7177 + modify mk-1st.awk and test/Makefile.in to add $(LDFLAGS) when making
7178 shared libraries, and to use $(CFLAGS) when linking test programs
7179 (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
7180 + add a call to _nc_keypad() in keypad() to accommodate applications
7181 such as nvi, which use curses for output but not for input (fixes
7182 Debian #131263, cf: 20011215).
7183 + add entrypoints to resizeterm.c which provide better control over the
7184 process: is_term_resized() and resize_term(). The latter restores
7185 the original design of resizeterm() before KEY_RESIZE was added in
7186 970906. Do this to accommodate 20010922 changes to view.c, but allow
7187 for programs with their own sigwinch handler, such as lynx (reported
7188 by Russell Ruby <russ@math.orst.edu>).
7191 + fix a typo in change to mk-1st.awk, which broke the shared-library
7192 makefile rules (reported by Martin Mokrejs).
7195 + update config.guess, config.sub
7196 + finish changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
7197 + fix a typo in mvwchat() macro (reported by Cy <yam@homerow.net).
7200 + add case in lib_baudrate.c for B921600 (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
7201 + correct missing sed-editing stage in manpage installs which is used
7202 to rename manpages, broken in 20010324 fix for Debian #89939 (Debian
7204 + remove -L$(libdir) from linker flags, probably not needed any more
7205 since HPUX is handled properly (reported by Niibe Yutaka
7207 + add configure check for mbstate_t, needed for wide-character
7208 configuration. On some platforms we must include <wchar.h> to
7209 define this (reported by Daniel Jacobowitz).
7210 + incorporate some of the changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
7213 + workaround for awk did not work with mawk, adjusted shell script.
7216 + add Caps.osf1r5, as an example.
7217 + modify behavior of can_clear_with() so that if an application is
7218 running in a non-bce terminals with default colors enabled, it
7219 returns true, allowing the user to select/paste text without picking
7220 up extraneous trailing blanks (adapted from patch by Daniel
7221 Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu>).
7222 + modify generated curses.h to ifdef-out prototypes for extensions if
7223 they are disabled, and to define curses_version() as a string in that
7224 case. This is needed to make the programs such as tic build in that
7226 + modified generated headers.sh to remove a gzip'd version of the
7227 target file if it exists, in case non-gzip'd manpages are installed
7228 into a directory where gzip'd ones exist. In that case, the latter
7230 + corrected a redundant initialization of signal handlers from 20010922
7232 + clarified bug-reporting address in terminfo.src (report by John H
7233 DuBois III <spcecdt@armory.com>).
7234 > several fixes from Robert Joop:
7235 + do not use "-v" option of awk in MKkey_defs.sh because it does not
7236 work with SunOS nawk.
7237 + modify definitions for libutf8 in curses.h to avoid redefinition
7239 + quoted references to compiler in shell command in misc/Makefile, in
7240 case it uses multiple tokens.
7243 + restore special case from 20010922 changes to omit SA_RESTART when
7244 setting up SIGWINCH handler, which is needed to allow wgetch() to be
7245 interrupted by that signal.
7246 + updated configure macro CF_WITH_PATHLIST, to omit some double quotes
7247 not needed with autoconf 2.52
7248 + revert configure script to autoconf 2.13 patched with
7249 autoconf-2.13-19990117.patch.gz (or later)
7251 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
7252 because autoconf 2.52 macro AC_PROG_AWK does not work on HPUX 11.0
7253 (report by David Ellement <ellement@sdd.hp.com>). This also fixes a
7254 different problem configuring with Mac OS X (reported by Marc Smith
7255 <marc.a.smith@home.com>).
7258 + modify include/edit_cfg.h to eliminate BROKEN_LINKER symbol from
7260 + move prototype for _nc_vsscanf() into curses.h.in to omit
7261 HAVE_VSSCANF symbol from curses.h, which was dependent upon the
7262 ncurses_cfg.h file which is not installed.
7263 + use ACS_LEN rather than SIZEOF(acs_map) in trace code of lib_acs.c,
7264 to work with broken linker configuration, e.g., cygwin (report by
7265 Robert Joop <rj@rainbow.in-berlin.de>).
7266 + make napms() call _nc_timed_wait() rather than poll() or select(),
7267 to work around broken implementations of these on cygwin.
7270 + drop configure macro CF_WIDEC_SHIFT, since that was rendered obsolete
7271 by Sven Verdoolaege's rewrite of wide-character support. This makes
7272 libncursesw incompatible again, but makes the header files almost the
7273 same as in the narrow-character configuration.
7274 + simplify definitions that combine wide/narrow versions of bkgd, etc.,
7275 to eliminate differences between the wide/narrow versions of curses.h
7276 + correct typo in configure macro CF_FUNC_VSSCANF
7277 + correct location of call to _nc_keypad() from 20011215 changes which
7278 prevented keypad() from being disabled (reported by Lars Hecking).
7281 + rewrote ncurses 'a' test to exercise wgetch() and keypad() functions
7282 better, e.g., by adding a 'w' command to create new windows which
7283 may have different keypad() settings.
7284 + corrected logic of keypad() by adding internal screen state to track
7285 whether the terminal's keypad-mode has been set. Use this in
7286 wgetch() to update the keypad-mode according to whether the
7287 associated window's keypad-mode has been set with keypad(). This
7288 corrects a related problem restoring terminal state after handling
7289 SIGTSTP (reported by Mike Castle).
7290 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52
7291 autoconf-2.52-patch.gz
7293 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
7294 + update config.guess, config.sub from
7295 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
7296 + minor changes to quoting in configure script to allow it to work
7300 + modify final checks in lib_setup.c for line and col values, making
7302 + modify acs_map[] if configure --broken-linker is specified, to make
7303 it use a function rather than an array (prompted by an incorrect
7304 implementation in cygwin package).
7305 + correct spelling of configure option --enable-colorfgbg, which
7306 happened to work if --with-develop was set (noted in cygwin package
7308 + modify ifdef for genericerror() to compile with SUNWspro Sun WorkShop
7309 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 (patch by Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu>).
7310 + add configure checks to see if ncurses' fallback vsscanf() will
7311 compile either of the special cases for FILE structs, and if not,
7312 force it to the case which simply returns an error (report by
7313 Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu> indicates that Solaris 8 with
7314 64-bits does not allow access to FILE's fields).
7315 + modify ifdef's for c++/cursesw.cc to use the fallback vsscanf() in
7316 the ncurses library if no better substitute for this can be found
7318 + modify the build to name dynamic libraries according to the
7319 convention used on OS X and Darwin. Rather than something like
7320 libncurses.dylib.5.2, Darwin would name it libncurses. 5.dylib.
7321 There are a few additional minor fixes, such as setting the library
7322 version and compatibility version numbers (patch by Jason Evans
7323 <jevans@apple.com>).
7324 + use 'sh' to run mkinstalldirs, to work around problems with buggy
7325 versions of 'make' on OS/2 (report by John Polterak <jp@eyup.org>).
7326 + correct typo in manpage description of curs_set() (Debian #121548).
7327 + replace the configure script existence-check for mkstemp() by one
7328 that checks if the function works, needed for older glibc and
7332 + modify script that generates fallbacks.c to compile a temporary
7333 copy of the terminfo source in case the host does not contain all of
7334 the entries requested for fallbacks (request by Greg Roelofs).
7335 + modify configure script to accommodate systems such as Mac OS X whose
7336 <stdbool.h> header defines a 'bool' type inconsistent with ncurses,
7337 which normally makes 'bool' consistent with C++. Include <stdbool.h>
7338 from curses.h to force consistent usage, define a new type
7339 NCURSES_BOOL and related that to the exported 'bool' as either a
7340 typedef or definition, according to whether <stdbool.h> is present
7341 (based on a bug report for tin 1.5.9 by Aaron Adams <adamsa@mac.com>).
7344 + added/updated terminfo entries for M$ telnet and KDE konsole -TD
7347 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
7348 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
7349 + add putty terminfo entry -TD
7350 + if configuring for wide-curses, define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, since
7351 this may not otherwise be defined to make test/view.c compile.
7354 + review/correct several missing/generated items in curses.wide, sorted
7355 the lists to make subsequent diff's easier to track.
7358 + add manual pages for add_wch(), echo_wchar(), getcchar(),
7359 mvadd_wch(), mvwadd_wch(), setcchar(), wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar().
7360 + implement wecho_wchar()
7361 + modify _tracedump() to handle wide-characters by mapping them to '?'
7362 and control-characters to '.', to make the trace file readable. Also
7363 dynamically allocate the buffer used by _tracedump() for formatting
7365 + modify T_CALLED/T_RETURN macros to ease balancing call/return lines
7366 in a trace by using curly braces.
7367 + implement _nc_viscbuf(), for tracing cchar_t arrays.
7368 + correct trace-calls in setcchar() and getcchar() functions, which
7369 traced the return values but not the entry to each function.
7370 + correct usage message in test/view.c, which still mentioned -u flag.
7373 + modify configure script to allow building with termcap only, or with
7374 fallbacks only. In this case, we do not build tic and toe.
7375 + add configure --with-termpath option, to override default TERMPATH
7376 value of /etc/termcap:/usr/share/misc/termcap.
7377 + cosmetic change to tack: make menu descriptions agree with menu
7381 + rewrote limit-checks in wscrl() and associated _nc_scroll_window(),
7382 to ensure that if the parameter of wscrl() is larger than the size of
7383 the scrolling region, then the scrolling region will be cleared
7384 (report by Ben Kohlen <bckohlen@yahoo.com>).
7385 + add trace/varargs.c, using this to trace parameters in lib_printw.c
7386 + implement _tracecchar_t2() and _tracecchar_t().
7387 + split-out trace/visbuf.c
7388 + correct typo in lib_printw.c changes from 20010922 (report by Mike
7392 + modify run_tic.sh to check if the build is a cross-compile. In that
7393 case, do not use the build's tic to install the terminfo database
7394 (report by Rafael Rodriguez Velilla <rrv@tid.es>).
7395 + modify mouse click resolution so that mouseinterval(-1) will disable
7396 it, e.g., to handle touchscreens via a slow connection (request by
7397 Byron Stanoszek <gandalf@winds.org>).
7398 + correct mouseinterval() default value shown in curs_mouse.3x
7399 + remove conflicting definition of mouse_trafo() (reported by Lars
7400 Hecking, using gcc 2.95.3).
7403 + simpler fix for signal_name(), to replace the one overlooked in
7404 20010929 (reported by Larry Virden).
7407 + add -i option to view.c, to test ncurses' check for non-default
7408 signal handler for SIGINT, etc.
7409 + add cases for shared-libraries on Darwin/OS X (patch by Rob Braun
7410 <bbraun@synack.net>).
7411 + modify tset to restore original I/O modes if an error is encountered.
7412 Also modify to use buffered stderr consistently rather than mixing
7414 + change signal_name() function to use if-then-else rather than case
7415 statement, since signal-values aren't really integers (reported by
7417 + add limit checks in wredrawln(), fixing a problem where lynx was
7418 repainting a pad which was much larger than the screen.
7421 + fix: PutRange() was counting the second part of a wide character as
7422 part of a run, resulting in a cursor position that was one too far
7423 (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
7424 + modify resizeterm() to not queue a KEY_RESIZE if there was no
7425 SIGWINCH, thereby separating the two styles of SIGWINCH handling
7427 + simplified lib_tstp.c, modify it to use SA_RESTART flag for SIGWINCH.
7428 + eliminate several static buffers in the terminfo compiler, using
7430 + modify MKkeyname.awk so that keyname() does not store its result into
7431 a static buffer that is overwritten by the next call.
7432 + reorganize the output of infocmp -E and -e options to compile cleanly
7433 with gcc -Wwrite-strings warnings.
7434 + remove redefinition of chgat/wchgat/mvwchgat from curses.wide
7437 + add label to test/view.c, showing the name of the last key or signal
7438 that made the screen repaint, to make it clearer when a sigwinch
7440 + use ExitProgram() consistently in the test-programs to make it
7441 simpler to test leaks with dmalloc, etc.
7442 + move hashtab static data out of hashmap.c into SCREEN struct.
7443 + make NO_LEAK code compile with revised WINDOWLIST structs.
7446 + modify tgetent() to check if exit_attribute_mode resets the alternate
7447 character set, and if so, attempt to adjust the copy of the termcap
7448 "me" string which it will return to eliminate that part. In
7449 particular, 'screen' would lose track of line-drawing characters
7450 (report by Frederic L W Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>, analysis by
7454 + specify DOCTYPE in html manpages.
7455 + add missing macros for several "generated" functions: attr_get(),
7456 attr_off(), attr_on(), attr_set(), chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat() and
7458 + modify view.c to agree with non-experimental status of ncurses'
7460 + change the sense of the -r option, making it default to ncurses'
7462 + add a note explaining what functions are unsafe in a signal
7464 + add a -c option, to set color display, for testing.
7465 + unset $data variable in MKterminfo.sh script, to address potential
7466 infinite loop if shell malfunction (report by Samuel Mikes
7467 <smikes@cubane.com>, for bash 2.05.0 on a Linux 2.0.36 system).
7468 + change kbs in mach terminfo entries to ^? (Marcus Brinkmann
7469 <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>).
7470 + correct logic for COLORFGBG environment variable: if rxvt is compiled
7471 with xpm support, the variable has three fields, making it slightly
7472 incompatible with itself. In either case, the background color is
7476 + move calls to def_shell_mode() and def_prog_mode() before loop with
7477 callbacks in lib_set_term.c, since the c++ demo otherwise initialized
7478 the tty modes before saving them (patch by John David Anglin
7479 <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>).
7480 + duplicate logic used to initialize trace in newterm(), in initscr()
7481 to avoid confusing trace of initscr().
7482 + simplify allocation of WINDOW and WINDOWLIST structs by making the
7483 first a part of the second rather than storing a pointer. This saves
7484 a call to malloc for each window (discussion with Philippe Blain).
7485 + remove unused variable 'used_ncv' from lib_vidattr.c (Philippe
7487 + modify c++/Makefile.in to accommodate archive programs that are
7488 different for C++ than for C, and add cases for vendor's C++
7489 compilers on Solaris and IRIX (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
7490 + correct manpage description of criteria for deciding if the terminal
7491 supports xterm mouse controls.
7492 + add several configure script options to aid with cross-compiling:
7493 --with-build-cc, --with-build-cflags, --with-build-ldflags, and
7494 --with-build-libs (request by Greg Roelofs).
7495 + change criteria for deciding if configure is cross-compiling from
7496 host/build mismatch to host/target mismatch (request by Greg Roelofs
7497 <greg.roelofs@philips.com>).
7498 + correct logic for infocmp -e and -E options which writes the data for
7499 the ext_Names[] array. This is needed if one constructs a fallback
7500 table for a terminfo entry which uses extended termcap names, e.g.,
7501 AX in a color xterm.
7502 + fix undefined NCURSES_PATHSEP when configure --disable-database
7506 + fix for VALID_BOOLEAN() macro when char is not signed.
7507 + modify 'clean' rule for C++ binding to work with Sun compiler, which
7508 caches additional information in a subdirectory of the objects.
7509 + added llib-ncursesw.
7512 + add Caps.keys example for experimental extended function keys
7513 (adapted from a patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
7514 + correct parameter types of vidputs() and vidattr() to agree with
7515 header files (report by William P Setzer).
7516 + fix typos in several man-pages (patch by William P Setzer).
7517 + remove unneeded ifdef for __GNUG__ in CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC configure
7518 macro, which made ncurses C++ binding fail to build with other
7519 C++ compilers such as HPUX 11.x (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
7520 + workaround for bug in HPUX 11.x C compiler: add a blank after
7521 NCURSES_EXPORT macro in form.h (report by Albert Chin-A-Young)
7522 + ignore blank lines in Caps* files in MKkey_defs.sh script (report by
7523 Albert Chin-A-Young).
7524 + correct definition of key_end in Caps.aix4, which left KEY_END
7525 undefined (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
7526 + remove a QNX-specific fallback prototype for vsscanf(), which is
7527 obsolete with QNX RTP.
7528 + review/fix some of the T() and TR() macro calls, having noticed that
7529 there was no data for delwin() in a trace of dialog because there was
7530 no returnVoid call for wtimeout(). Also, traces in lib_twait.c are
7531 now selected under TRACE_IEVENT rather than TRACE_CALLS.
7534 + add a _nc_access() check before opening files listed via $TERMPATH.
7535 + using modified man2html, regenerate some of the html manpages to fix
7536 broken HREF's where the link was hyphenated.
7539 + add some limit/pointer checks to -S option of tputs.
7540 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
7541 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
7542 + add a note in curs_termcap.3x regarding a defect in the XSI
7543 description of tgetent (based on a discussion with Urs Jansen
7544 regarding the HPUX 11.x implementation, whose termcap interface is
7545 not compatible with existing termcap programs).
7546 + modify manhtml rule in dist.mk to preserve copyright notice on the
7547 generated files, as well as to address HTML style issues reported by
7548 tidy and weblint. Regenerated/updated corresponding html files.
7549 + comment out use of Protected_Character and related rarely used
7550 attributes in ncurses Ada95 test/demo to compile with wide-character
7554 + implement a simple example in C++ demo to test scanw().
7555 + corrected stdio function used to implement scanw() in cursesw.cc
7556 + correct definition of RemAttr() macro from 20010602 changes, which
7557 caused C++ SillyDemo to not show line-drawing characters.
7558 + modify C++ binding, adding getKey() which can be overridden by user
7559 to substitute functions other than getch() for keyboard processing
7560 of forms and menus (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7563 + fix some of the trace calls which needed modification to work with
7564 new wide-character structures.
7565 + modify magic-cookie code in tty_update.c to compile with new
7566 wide-character structures (report by <George.R.Goffe@seagate.com>).
7567 + ensure that _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined in curses.priv.h if
7568 compiling for wide-character configuration.
7569 + make addwnstr() handle non-spacing characters (patch by Sven
7573 + add configure check to define _GNU_SOURCE, needed to prop up glibc
7575 + split-out include/curses.wide to solve spurious redefinitions caused
7576 by defining _GNU_SOURCE, and move includes for <signal.h> before
7577 <curses.h> to work around misdefinition of ERR in glibc 2.1.3 header
7579 + extended ospeed change to NetBSD and OpenBSD -TD
7580 + modify logic in lib_baudrate.c for ospeed, for FreeBSD to make it
7581 work properly for termcap applications (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
7584 + correct an overlooked CharOf/UChar instance (reports by Eugene Lee
7585 <eugene@anime.net>, Sven Verdoolaege).
7586 + correct unneeded ifdef for wunctrl() (reported by Sven Verdoolaege)
7589 + change overlooked several CharOf/UChar instances.
7590 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
7591 + correct a typo in wunctrl(), which made it appear that botwc() was
7592 needed (no such function: use btowc()).
7593 + reimplement wide-character demo in test/view.c, using new functions.
7594 + implement getcchar(), setcchar(), wadd_wchnstr() and related macros.
7595 + fix a syntax problem with do/if/while in PUTC macro (curses.priv.h).
7598 + add parentheses in macros for malloc in test.priv.h, fixes an
7599 expression in view.c (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.co.at>).
7600 + add Caps.uwin, as an example.
7601 + change the way curses.h is generated, making the list of function
7602 key definitions extracted from the Caps file.
7603 + add #undef's before possible redefinition of ERR and OK in curses.h
7604 + modify logic in tic, toe, tput and tset which checks for basename of
7605 argv[0] to work properly on systems such as OS/2 which have
7606 case-independent filenames and/or program suffixes, e.g., ".ext".
7609 + add a configure check, if --enable-widec is specified, for putwc(),
7610 which may be in libutf8.
7611 + remove some unnecessary text from curs_extend.3x and
7612 default_colors.3x which caused man-db to make incorrect symbolic
7613 links (Debian #99550).
7614 + add configure check if cast for _IO_va_list is needed to compile
7615 C++ vscan code (Debian #97945).
7616 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
7617 + correct code that used non-standard auto-initialization of a struct,
7618 which gcc allows (report by Larry Virden).
7619 + use putwc() in PUTC() macro.
7620 + make addstr() work for the special case where the codeset is
7621 non-stateful (eg. UTF-8), as well as stateful codesets.
7624 + correct loop expression in NEXT_CHAR macro for lib_addstr.c changes
7625 from 20010602 (report by Mike Castle).
7628 + modify mvcur() to avoid emitting newline characters when nonl() mode
7629 is set. Normally this is not a problem since the actual terminal
7630 mode is set to suppress nl/crlf translations, however it is useful to
7631 allow the caller to manipulate the terminal mode to avoid staircasing
7632 effects after spawning a process which writes messages (for lynx
7634 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>:
7635 + remove redundant type-conversion in fifo_push()
7636 + correct definition of addwstr() macro in curses.h.in
7637 + remove _nc_utf8_outch()
7638 + rename most existing uses of CharOf() to UChar(), e.g., where it is
7639 used to prevent sign-extension in ctype macros.
7640 + change some chtype's to attr_t's where the corresponding variables
7641 are used to manipulate attributes.
7642 + UpdateAttr() was applied to both attributes (attr_t) and characters
7643 (chtype). Modify macro and calls to it to make these distinct.
7644 + add CharEq() macro, use in places where wide-character configuration
7645 implementation uses a struct for cchar_t.
7646 + moved struct ldat into curses.priv.h, to hide implementation details.
7647 + change CharOf() macro to use it for masking A_CHARTEXT data from
7649 + add L() macro to curses.priv.h, for long-character literals.
7650 + replace several assignments from struct ldat entries to chtype or
7651 char values with combinations of CharOf() and AttrOf() macros.
7652 + add/use intermediate ChAttrOf() and ChCharOf() macros where we know
7653 we are using chtype data.
7654 + add/use lowlevel attribute manipulation macros AddAttr(), RemAttr()
7656 + add/use SetChar() macro, to change a cchar_t based on a character and
7658 + convert most internal use of chtype to NCURSES_CH_T, to simplify use
7659 of cchar_t for wide-character configuration. Similarly, use ARG_CH_T
7660 where a pointer would be more useful.
7661 + add stubs for tracing cchar_t values.
7662 + add/use macro ISBLANK()
7663 + add/use constructors for cchar_t's: NewChar(), NewChar2().
7664 + add/use macros CHREF(), CHDEREF(), AttrOfD(), CharOfD() to facilitate
7665 passing cchar_t's by address.
7666 + add/use PUTC_DATA, PUTC() macros.
7667 + for wide-character configuration, move the window background data to
7668 the end of the WINDOW struct so that whether _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
7669 is defined or not, the offsets in the struct will not change.
7670 + modify addch() to work with wide-characters.
7671 + mark several wide-character functions as generated in curses.h.in
7672 + implement wunctrl(), wadd_wch(), wbkgrndset(), wbkgrnd(),
7673 wborder_set() and waddnwstr().
7676 + add experimental --with-caps=XXX option to customize to similar
7677 terminfo database formats such as AIX 4.x
7678 + add Caps.aix4 as an example.
7679 + modify Caps to add columns for the the KEY_xxx symbols.
7680 + modify configure --with-widec to suppress overwrite of libcurses.so
7682 + add checks to toe.c to avoid being confused by files and directories
7683 where we would expect the reverse, e.g., source-files in the
7684 top-level terminfo levels as is the case for AIX.
7687 + add top-level 'depend' rule for the C sources, assuming that the
7688 makedepend program is available. As a side-effect, this makes
7689 the generated sources, as in "make sources" (prompted by a report
7690 by Mike Castle that "make -j" fails because the resulting parallel
7691 processes race to generate ncurses/names.c).
7692 + modify configure script so that --disable-overwrite option's action
7693 to add a symbolic link for libcurses applies to the static library as
7694 well as the shared library when both are configured (report by Felix
7695 Natter <f.natter@ndh.net>).
7696 + add ELKS terminfo entries (Federico Bianchi
7697 <bianchi@www.arte.unipi.it>)
7698 + add u6 (CSR) to Eterm (Michael Jennings).
7701 + modify test/ncurses.c to work with xterm-256color, which has fewer
7702 color pairs than colors*colors (report by David Ellement
7703 <ellement@sdd.hp.com>).
7706 + corrected screen.xterm-xfree86 entry.
7707 + update comment in Caps regarding IBM (AIX) function-key definitions.
7710 + modify c++/Makefile.in to link with libncurses++w.a when configured
7711 for wide-characters (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
7712 + add check in _nc_trace_buf() to refrain from freeing a null pointer.
7713 + improve CF_PROG_INSTALL macro using CF_DIRNAME.
7714 + update config.guess, config.sub from autoconf 2.49e (alpha).
7717 + add secondary check in tic.c, similar_sgr() to see if the reason
7718 for mismatch was that the individual capabilities used a time-delay
7719 while sgr did not. Used this to cleanup mismatches, e.g., in vt100,
7720 and remove time-delay from Apple_Terminal entries.
7721 + add Apple_Terminal terminfo entries (Benjamin C W Sittler
7722 <bsittler@iname.com>).
7723 + correct definitions of shifted editing keys for xterm-xfree86 -TD
7724 + fix a bug in test/bs.c from 20010407 (patch by Erik Sigra).
7725 + prevent relative_move() from doing an overwrite if it detects 8-bit
7726 characters when configured for UTF-8 (reported by Sven Verdoolaege
7727 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
7730 + add configure checks for strstream.h vscan function, and similar
7731 stdio-based function which may be used in C++ binding for gcc 3.0
7732 (reports by George Goffe, Lars Hecking, Mike Castle).
7733 + rewrite parts of configure.in which used changequote(). That feature
7734 is broken in the latest autoconf alphas (e.g., 2.49d).
7735 + add a missing pathname for ncurses_dll.h, needed when building in
7736 a directory outside the source tree (patch by Sven Verdoolaege
7737 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
7738 > fix 2 bugs in test/bs.c Erik Sigra <sigra@home.se>:
7739 + no ships were ever placed in the last row or in the last column.
7740 This made the game very easy to win, because you never had to waste
7741 any shots there, but the computer did.
7742 + the squares around a sunken ship that belonged to the player were not
7743 displayed as already hit by the computer, like it does for the
7747 + add some examples of customizing screen's terminfo:
7748 screen.xterm-xfree86, screen.xterm-r6, screen.teraterm -TD
7749 + modify screen's terminfo entry to match the khome/kend in screen
7750 3.09.08 (Debian #92215).
7751 + correct a memory leak in forms library (report by Stefan Vogtner
7752 <stefan@vogtner.de>) (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7755 + change symbols used to guard against repeated includes to begin
7756 consistently with "NCURSES_" rather than a leading underscore. There
7757 are other symbols defined in the header files which begin with a
7758 leading underscore, but they are part of the legacy interface.
7759 + reorder includes in c++ binding so that rcs identifiers can be
7761 + add .cc.ii rule to c++ makefile, to get preprocessor output for
7763 + correct configure script handling of @keyword@ substitutions when the
7764 --with-manpage-renames option is given (cf: 20000715, fixes Debian
7766 + report stack underflow/overflow in tparm() when tic -cv option is
7768 + remove spurious "%|" operator from xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry,
7769 (reported by Adam Costello <amc@cs.berkeley.edu>, Debian #89222).
7772 + cleanup of newdemo.c, fixing some ambiguous expressions noted by gcc
7773 2.95.2, and correcting some conflicting color pair initializations.
7774 + add missing copyright notice for cursesw.h
7775 + review, make minor fixes for use of '::' for referring to C-language
7776 interface from C++ binding.
7777 + modify configure check for g++ library slightly to accommodate
7778 nonstandard version number, e.g., <vendor>-2.7 (report by Ronald Ho
7779 <rho@mipos2.intel.com>).
7780 + add configure check for c++ <sstream> header, replace hardcoded
7782 + workaround for pre-release of gcc 3.0 libstdc++, which has dropped
7783 vscan from strstreambuf to follow standard, use wrapper for C vscanf
7784 instead (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@excite.com> and Matt Taggart
7785 <taggart@carmen.fc.hp.com>, fixes Debian .
7788 + modify interface of _nc_get_token() to pass 'silent' parameter to it,
7789 to make quieter loading of /etc/termcap (patch by Todd C Miller).
7790 + correct a few typos in curs_slk.3x and curs_outopts.3x manpages
7791 (patch by Todd C Miller).
7794 + compiler-warning fixes (reported by Nelson Beebe).
7797 + modify screen terminfo entry to use new 3.9.8 feature allowing xterm
7801 + broaden patterns used to match OS/2 EMX in configure script to cover
7802 variant used in newer config.guess/config.sub
7803 + remove changequote() calls from configure script, since this feature
7804 is broken in the autoconf 2.49c alpha, maintainers decline to fix.
7805 + remove macro callPutChar() from tty_update.c, since this is no longer
7806 needed (reported by Philippe Blain).
7807 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c to handle the case when the input
7808 file is really empty. Modify the next_char() function in comp_scan.c
7809 to allow arbitrarily long lines, and incidentally supply a newline to
7810 files that do not end in a newline. These changes improve tic's
7811 recovery from attempts to read binary files, e.g., its output from
7812 the terminfo database (reported by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
7815 + revert change to c++/demo.cc from 20001209, which changed definition
7816 of main() apparently to accommodate cygwin linker, but broke the demo
7818 + workaround for broken egcs 2.91.66 which calls member functions
7819 (i.e., lines() and colors() of NCursesWindow before calling its
7820 constructor. Add calls to initialize() in a few constructors which
7821 did not do this already.
7822 + use the GNAT preprocessor to make the necessary switch between TRACE
7823 and NO_TRACE configurations (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7824 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
7825 + modify kterm terminfo entry to use SCS sequence to support alternate
7826 character set (it does not work with SI/SO).
7827 + --with-ospeed=something didn't work. configure.in checked for a
7828 $enableval where it should check for $withval. Also,
7829 ncurses/llib-lncurses still had a hardcoded short.
7832 + correction to my merge of Tom Riddle's patch that broke tic in some
7833 conditions (reported by Enoch Wexler <enoch@wexler.co.il>) -TD
7836 + modify view.c to test halfdelay(). Like other tests, this recognizes
7837 the 's' and space commands for stopping/starting polled input, shows
7838 a freerunning clock in the header. If given a parameter to 's', that
7839 makes view.c use halfdelay() with that parameter rather than
7841 + fix to allow compile with the experimental configure option
7843 + modify postprocess_termcap() to avoid overwriting key_backspace,
7844 key_left, key_down when processing a non-base entry (report/patch by
7846 + modify _nc_wrap_entry(), adding option to reallocate the string
7847 table, needed in _nc_merge_entry() when merging termcap entries.
7848 (adapted from report/patch by Tom Riddle <ftr@oracom.com>).
7849 + modify a few configure script macros to keep $CFLAGS used only for
7850 compiler options, preprocessor options in $CPPFLAGS.
7853 + correct marker positions in lrtest.c after receiving a sigwinch.
7854 + fix ifdef's in ncurses.c to build against pre-5.2 for testing.
7855 + fixes to tclock for resizing behavior, redundant computation (report
7856 and patch by A M Kuchling <akuchlin@mems-exchange.org>).
7859 + improved scoansi terminfo entry -TD
7860 + modify configure script and makefile in Ada95/src to compile a stub
7861 for the trace functions when ncurses does not provide those.
7864 + add ncurses_dll.h and related definitions to support generating DLL's
7865 with cygwin (adapted from a patch by Charles Wilson
7866 <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>, changed NCURSES_EXPORT macro to make it
7867 work with 'indent') -TD
7870 + correct prototypes for some functions in curs_termcap.3x, matching
7871 termcap.h, which matches X/Open.
7872 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7873 + a revised version of the Ada enhancements sent in by "H.
7874 Nanosecond", aka Eugene V Melaragno <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>. This
7876 - small fixes to the existing ncurses binding
7877 - addition of some more low-level functions to the binding, including
7878 termcap and terminfo functions
7879 - An Ada implementation of the "ncurses" test application originally
7883 + modify logic in lib_setup.c to allow either lines or columns value
7884 from terminfo to be used if the screen size cannot be determined
7885 dynamically rather than requiring both (patch by Ehud Karni
7886 <ehud@unix.simonwiesel.co.il>).
7887 + add check in lib_tgoto.c's is_termcap() function to reject null or
7888 empty strings (reported by Valentin Nechayev <netch@netch.kiev.ua> to
7890 + add definition from configure script that denotes the path-separator,
7891 which is normally a colon. The path-separator is a semicolon on
7892 OS/2 EMX and similar systems which may use a colon within pathnames.
7893 + alter logic to set default for --disable-overwrite option to set it
7894 to 'yes' if the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr/local, thereby
7895 accommodating the most common cause of problems: gcc's nonstandard
7896 search rules. Other locations such as /usr/local/ncurses will
7897 default to overwriting (report by Lars Hecking <lhecking@nmrc.ie>).
7900 + modify default for --disable-overwrite configure option to disable
7901 if the --prefix or $prefix value is not /usr.
7902 + add cygwin to systems for which ncurses is installed by default into
7903 /usr rather than /usr/local.
7906 + minor optimization in comp_error.c and lib_termname.c, using
7907 strncat() to replace strncpy() (patch by Solar Designer).
7908 + add a use_terminfo_vars() check for $HOME/.termcap, and check for
7909 geteuid() to use_terminfo_vars() (patch by Solar Designer
7911 + improved cygwin terminfo entry, based on patch by
7912 <ernie_boyd@yahoo.com>.
7913 + modify _nc_write_entry() to allow for the possibility that linking
7914 aliases on a filesystem that ignores case would not succeed because
7915 the source and destination differ only by case, e.g., NCR260VT300WPP0
7916 on cygwin (report by Neil Zanella).
7917 + fix a typo in the curs_deleteln.3x man page (patch by Bernhard
7918 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
7921 + add configure option --with-ospeed to assist packagers in transition
7922 to 5.3 change to ospeed type.
7923 + add/use CharOf() macro to suppress sign-extension of char type on
7924 platforms where this is a problem in ctype macros, e.g., Solaris.
7925 + change trace output to binary format.
7926 + correct a missing quote adjustment in CF_PATH_SYNTAX autoconf
7927 macro, for OS/2 EMX configuration.
7928 + rearrange a few configure macros, moving preprocessor options to
7929 $CPPFLAGS (a now-obsolete version of autoconf did not consistently
7930 use $CPPFLAGS in both the compile and preprocessor checks).
7931 + add a check in relative_move() to guard against buffer overflow in
7932 the overwrite logic.
7935 + add message to configure script showing g++ version.
7936 + resync config.guess, config.sub
7937 + modify lib_delwin.c, making it return ERR if the window did not exist
7938 (suggested by Neil Zanella).
7939 + add cases for FreeBSD 3.1 to tdlint and makellib scripts, used this
7940 to test/review ncurses library. (Would use lclint, but it doesn't
7942 + reorganized knight.c to avoid forward references. Correct screen
7943 updates when backtracking, especially to the first cell. Add F/B/a
7946 20001021 5.2 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
7947 + update generated html files from manpages.
7948 + modify dist.mk to use edit_man.sh to substitute autoconf'd variables
7950 + fix an uninitialized pointer in read_termcap.c (report by Todd C
7951 Miller, from report/patch by Philip Guenther <guenther@gac.edu>).
7952 + correct help-message and array limit in knight.c (patch by Brian
7953 Raiter <breadbox@muppetlabs.com>).
7954 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7955 + fix to avoid warning by GNAT-3.13p about use of inconsistent casing
7956 for some identifiers defined in the standard package.
7957 + cosmetic change to forms/fty_enum.c
7960 + correct an off-by-one position in test/railroad.c which could cause
7961 wrapping at the right margin.
7962 + test/repair some issues with libtool configuration. Make
7963 --disable-echo force libtool --silent. (Libtool does not work for
7964 OS/2 EMX, works partly for SCO - libtool is still very specific to
7966 + change default of --with-manpage-tbl to "no", since for most of the
7967 platforms which do have tbl installed, the system "man" program
7968 understands how to run tbl automatically.
7969 + minor improvement to force_bar() in comp_parse.c (Bernhard
7970 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
7971 + modify lib_tparm.c to use get_space() before writing terminating
7972 null character, both for consistency as well as to ensure that if
7973 save_char() was called immediately before, that the allocated memory
7974 is enough (patch by Sergei Ivanov).
7975 + add note about termcap ML capability which is duplicated between two
7976 different capabilities: smgl and smglr (reported by Sergei Ivanov
7977 <svivanov@pdmi.ras.ru>).
7978 + correct parameter counts in include/Caps for dclk as well as some
7979 printer-specific capabilities: csnm, defc, scs, scsd, smgtp, smglp.
7980 > patch by Johnny C Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>:
7981 + add support for building with libtool (apparently version 1.3.5,
7982 since old versions do not handle -L../lib), using new configure
7983 option --with-libtool.
7984 + add configure option --with-manpage-tbl, which causes the manpages to
7985 be preprocessed by tbl(1) prior to installation,
7986 + add configure option --without-curses-h, which causes the
7987 installation process to install curses.h as ncurses.h and make
7988 appropriate changes to headers and manpages.
7991 + correct order of options/parameters in run_tic.in invocation of tic,
7992 which did not work with standard getopt() (reported by Ethan
7993 Butterfield <primus@veris.org>).
7994 + correct logic for 'reverse' variable in lib_vidattr.c, which was
7995 setting it true without checking if newmode had A_REVERSE set, e.g.,
7996 using $TERM=ansi on OS/2 EMX (see 20000917).
7997 > patch by Todd C Miller:
7998 + add a few missing use_terminfo_vars() and fixes up _nc_tgetent().
7999 Previously, _nc_cgetset() would still get called on cp so the
8000 simplest thing is to set cp to NULL if !use_terminfo_vars().
8001 + added checks for an empty $HOME environment variable.
8002 > patches for OS/2 EMX (Ilya Zakharevich):
8003 + modify convert_configure.pl to support INSTALL. Change compiler
8004 options in that script to use multithreading, needed for the mouse.
8005 + modify OS/2 mouse support, retrying as a 2-button mouse if code fails
8006 to set up a 3-button mouse.
8007 + improve code for OS/2 mouse support, using _nc_timed_wait() to
8008 replace select() call.
8011 + change type of ospeed variable back to short to match its use in
8012 legacy applications (reported by Andrey A Chernov).
8013 + add case to configure script for --enable-rpath on IRIX (patch by
8014 Albert Chin-A-Young).
8015 + minor fix to position_check() function, to ensure it gets the whole
8016 cursor report before decoding.
8017 + add configure option --disable-assumed-color, to allow pre-5.1
8018 convention of default colors used for color-pair 0 to be configured
8019 (see assume_default_colors()).
8020 + rename configure option --enable-hashmap --disable-hashmap, and
8021 reorder the configure options, splitting the experimental and
8023 + add configure option --disable-root-environ, which tells ncurses to
8024 disregard $TERMINFO and similar environment variables if the current
8025 user is root, or running setuid/setgid (based on discussion with
8027 + modified misc/run_tic.in to use tic -o, to eliminate dependency on
8028 $TERMINFO variable for installs.
8029 + add table entry for plab_norm to tput, so it passes in strings
8030 for that capability.
8031 + modify parse_format() in lib_tparm.c to ignore precision if it is
8032 longer than 10000 (report by Jouko Pynnonen).
8033 + rewrote limit checks in lib_mvcur.c using new functions
8034 _nc_safe_strcat(), etc. Made other related changes to check lengths
8035 used for strcat/strcpy (report by Jouko Pynnonen
8036 <jouko@solutions.fi>).
8039 + modify several descriptions, including those for setaf, setab, in
8040 include/Caps to indicate that the entries are parameterized. This
8041 information is used to tell which strings are translated when
8042 converting to termcap. Fixes a problem where the generated termcap
8043 would contain a spurious "%p1" for the terminfo "%p1%d".
8044 + modify ld -rpath options (e.g., Linux, and Solaris) to use an
8045 absolute pathname for the build tree's lib directory (prompted by
8046 discussion with Albert Chin-A-Young).
8047 + modify "make install.man" and "make uninstall.man" to include tack's
8049 + various fixes for install scripts used to support configure --srcdir
8050 and --with-install-prefix (reported by Matthew Clarke
8051 <Matthew_Clarke@mindlink.bc.ca>).
8052 + make configure script checks on variables $GCC and $GXX consistently
8053 compare against 'yes' rather than test if they are nonnull, since
8054 either may be set to the corresponding name of the C or C++ compiler
8055 (report/patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
8058 + modify rs2 capability in xterm-r6 and similar where cursor
8059 save/restore bracketed the sequence for resetting video attributes.
8060 The cursor restore would undo that (report by John Hawkinson
8061 <jhawk@MIT.EDU> (see NetBSD misc/11052)).
8062 + using parameter check added to tic, corrected 27 typos in
8064 + modify tic to verify that its inputs are really files, in case
8065 someone tries to read a directory (or /dev/zero).
8066 + add a check for empty buffers returned by fgets() in comp_scan.c
8067 next_char() function, in case tic is run on a non-text file (fixes
8068 a core dump reported by Aaron Campbell <aaron@cs.dal.ca>).
8069 + add to railroad.c some code exercising tgoto(), providing an
8070 alternate form of display if the terminal supports cursor addressing.
8071 + split-out tgoto() again, this time into new file lib_tgoto.c, and
8072 implement a conventional BSD-style tgoto() which is used if the
8073 capability string does not contain terminfo-style padding or
8074 parameters (requested by Andrey A Chernov).
8075 + add check to tic which reports capabilities that do not reference
8076 the expected number of parameters.
8077 + add error checking to infocmp's -v and -m options to ensure that
8078 the option value is indeed a number.
8079 + some cleanup of logic in _nc_signal_handler() to verify if SIGWINCH
8080 handler is setup. Separated the old/new sigaction data for SIGTSTP
8081 from the other signals.
8084 + add S0, E0 extensions to screen's terminfo entry, which is another
8085 way to solve the misconfiguration issue -TD
8086 + completed special case for tgoto from 20000916
8089 + update xterm terminfo entries to match XFree86 xterm patch #146 -TD
8090 + add Matrix Orbital terminfo entries (from Eric Z Ayers
8092 + add special case to lib_tparm.c to allow 'screen' program to use a
8093 termcap-style parameter "%." to tgoto() for switching character sets.
8094 + use LN_S substitution in run_tic.in, to work on OS/2 EMX which has
8096 + updated notes in README.emx regarding autoconf patches.
8097 + replace a lookup table in lib_vidattr.c used to decode no_color_video
8098 with a logic expression (suggested by Philippe Blain).
8099 + add a/A toggle to ncurses.c 'b' test, which clears/sets alternate
8100 character set attribute from the displayed text.
8101 + correct inequality in parameter analysis of rewritten lib_tparm.c
8102 which had the effect of ignoring p9 in set_attributes (sgr), breaking
8103 alternate character set (reported by Piotr Majka <charvel@link.pl>).
8104 + correct ifdef'ing for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF which would not compile
8105 with Sun WorkShop compilers since these tokens were empty (cf:
8106 20000902, reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
8109 + correct an uninitialized parameter to open_tempfile() in tic.c which
8110 made "tic -I" give an ambiguous error message about tmpnam.
8111 + add special case in lib_vidattr.c to reset underline and standout for
8112 devices that have no sgr0 defined (patch by Don Lewis
8113 <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>). Note that this will not work for bold
8114 mode, since there is no exit-bold-mode capability.
8115 + improved patch for Make_Enum_Type (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
8116 + modify tparm to disallow arithmetic on strings, analyze the varargs
8117 list to read strings as strings and numbers as numbers.
8118 + modify tparm's internal function spop() to treat a null pointer as
8120 + modify tput program so it can be renamed or invoked via a link as
8121 'reset' or 'init', producing the same effect as 'tput reset' or 'tput
8123 + add private entrypoint _nc_basename(), use to consolidate related
8124 code in progs, as well as accommodating OS/2 EMX pathnames.
8125 + remove NCURSES_CONST line from edit_cfg.sh to compensate for its
8126 removal (except via AC_SUBST) from configure.in, making
8127 --enable-const work again (reported by Juergen Pfeifer).
8128 + regen'd configure to pick up "hpux*" change from 20000902.
8131 + modify tset.c to check for transformed "reset" program name, if any.
8132 + add a check for null pointer in Make_Enum_Type() (reported by Steven
8133 W Orr <steveo@world.std.com>).
8134 + change functions _nc_parse_entry() and postprocess_termcap() to avoid
8135 using strtok(), because it is non-reentrant (reported by Andrey A
8136 Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>).
8137 + remove "hpux10.*" case from CF_SHARED_OPTS configure script macro.
8138 This differed from the "hpux*" case by using reversed symbolic
8139 links, which made the 5.1 version not match the configuration of
8140 5.0 shared libraries (reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
8141 + correct a dependency in Ada95/src/Makefile.in which prevented
8142 building with configure --srcdir (patch by H Nanosecond
8143 <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>).
8144 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in to avoid warning if GCC_PRINTF or
8145 GCC_SCANF was not previously defined (reported by Pavel Roskin
8147 + add MKncurses_def.sh to generate fallback definitions for
8148 ncurses_cfg.h, to quiet gcc -Wundef warnings, modified ifdef's in
8149 code to consistently use "#if" rather than "#ifdef".
8152 + add QNX qansi entries to terminfo -TD
8153 + add os2 entry to misc/emx.src (<jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
8154 + add configure option --with-database to allow specifying a different
8155 terminfo source-file to install. On OS/2 EMX, this defaults to
8157 + change misc/run_tic.sh to derive it from misc/run_tic.in, to simplify
8158 setting .exe extension on OS/2 EMX.
8159 + add .exe extension in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in,
8160 Ada95/samples/Makefile.in, for OS/2 EMX (reported by
8161 <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
8162 + add configure check for filesystems (such as OS/2 EMX) which do not
8163 distinguish between upper/lowercase filenames, use this to fix tags
8165 + initialize fds[] array to 0's in _nc_timed_wait(); apparently poll()
8166 only sets the revents members of that array when there is activity
8167 corresponding to the related file (report by Glenn Cooper
8168 <gcooper@qantas.com.au>, using Purify on Solaris 5.6).
8169 + change configure script to use AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM rather than
8170 AC_CANONICAL_HOST, which means that configure --target will set
8171 a default program-prefix.
8172 + add note on cross-compiling to INSTALL (which does not rely on the
8173 AC_CANONICAL_* macros).
8176 + add cases for EMX OS/2 to config.guess, config.sub
8177 + new version of config.guess, config.sub from lynx 2.8.4dev.7
8178 + add definitions via transform.h to allow tic and tput to check for
8179 the transformed aliases rather than the original infotocap, etc.
8180 + simplify transform-expressions in progs/Makefile.in, make the
8181 uninstall rule work for transformed program names.
8182 + change symbol used by --install-prefix configure option from
8183 INSTALL_PREFIX to DESTDIR (the latter has become common usage
8184 although the name is misleading).
8185 + modify programs to use curses_version() string to report the version
8186 of ncurses with which they are compiled rather than the
8187 NCURSES_VERSION string. The function returns the patch level in
8188 addition to the major and minor version numbers.
8191 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to make transformed program names
8192 a parameter to that macro rather than embedding them in the macro.
8193 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in lynx
8195 + add configure option --with-default-terminfo-dir=DIR to allow
8196 specifying the default terminfo database directory (request by Albert
8198 + minor updates for terminfo.src from FreeBSD termcap change-history.
8199 + correct notes in README and INSTALL regarding documentation files
8200 that were moved from misc directory to doc (report by Rich Kulawiec
8202 + change most remaining unquoted parameters of 'test' in configure
8203 script to use quotes, for instance fixing a problem in the
8204 --disable-database option (reported by Christian Mondrup
8205 <scancm@biobase.dk>).
8206 + minor adjustments to work around some of the incompatibilities/bugs
8207 in autoconf 2.29a alpha.
8208 + add -I/usr/local/include when --with-ncurses option is used in
8209 test/configure script.
8210 + correct logic in adjust_cancels(), which did not check both
8211 alternatives when reclassifying an extended name between boolean,
8212 number and string, causing an infinite loop in tic.
8215 + correct a missing backslash in curses.priv.h
8218 + change handling of non_dest_scroll_region in tty_update.c to clear
8219 text after it is shifted in rather than before shifting out. Also
8220 correct row computation (reported by Ruediger Kuhlmann
8221 <uck4@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>).
8222 + add/use new trace function to display chtype values from winch() and
8224 + add trace mask TRACE_ATTRS, alter several existing _tracef calls that
8225 trace attribute changes under TRACE_CALLS to use this.
8226 + modify MKlib_gen.sh so that functions returning chtype will call
8228 + add returnChar() trace, for functions returning chtype.
8229 + change indent.pro to line up parenthesis.
8232 + fix a heap problem with the c++ binding (report by
8233 <alexander_liberson@ninewest.com>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
8234 + minor adjustment to ClrToEOL() to handle an out-of-bounds parameter.
8235 + modify the check for big-core to force a couple of memory accesses,
8236 which may work as needed for older/less-capable machines (if not,
8237 there's still the explicit configure option).
8238 > fixes based on diff's for Amiga and BeOS found at
8239 http://www.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de/~kuhlmann/cross/ncurses/
8240 + alter definition of NCURSES_CONST to make it non-empty.
8241 + add amiga-vnc terminfo entry.
8242 + redefine 'TEXT' in menu.h for AMIGA, since it is reported to have
8243 an (unspecified) symbol conflict.
8244 + replaced case-statement in _nc_tracebits() for CSIZE with a table to
8245 simplify working around implementations that define random
8246 combinations of the related macros to zero.
8247 + modify configure test for tcgetattr() to allow for old
8248 implementations, e.g., on BeOS, which only defined it as a macro.
8249 > patches by Bruno Haible:
8250 + when checking LC_ALL/LC_CTYPE/LANG environment variables for UTF-8
8251 locale, ignore those which are set to an empty value, as per SUSV2.
8252 + encode 0xFFFD in UTF-8 with 3 bytes, not 2.
8253 + modify _nc_utf8_outch() to avoid sign-extension when checking for
8257 + correct manlinks.sed script to avoid using ERE "\+", which is not
8258 understood by older versions of sed (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
8259 + implement configure script options that transform installed program
8260 names, e.g., --program-prefix, including the manpage names and cross
8261 references (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>).
8262 + correct several mismatches between manpage filename and ".TH"
8263 directives, renaming dft_fgbg.3x to default_colors.3x and
8264 menu_attribs.3x to menu_attributes.3x (report by Todd C Miller).
8265 + correct missing includes for <string.h> in several places, including
8266 the C++ binding. This is not noted by gcc unless we use the
8267 -fno-builtin option (reported by Igor Schein <igor@txc.com>).
8268 + modified progs/tset.c and tack/sysdep.c to build with sgttyb
8269 interface if neither termio or termios is available. Tested this
8270 with FreeBSD 2.1.5 (which does have termios - but the sgttyb does
8273 20000708 5.1 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
8274 + document configure options in INSTALL.
8275 + add man-page for ncurses trace functions.
8276 + correct return value shown in curs_touch.3x for is_linetouched() and
8277 is_wintouched(), in curs_initscr.3x for isendwin(), and in
8278 curs_termattr.3x for has_ic() and has_il().
8279 + add prototypes for touchline() and touchwin(), adding them to the
8280 list of generated functions.
8281 + modify fifo_push() to put ERR into the fifo just like other values to
8282 return from wgetch(). It was returning without doing that, making
8283 end-of-file condition incorrectly return a 0 (reported by Todd C
8285 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS for progs and tack (see 971115), since they
8286 are needed for SCO OpenServer.
8287 + move _nc_disable_period from free_ttype.c to comp_scan.c to appease
8288 dynamic loaders on SCO and IRIX64.
8289 + add "-a" option to test/ncurses.c to invoke assume_default_colors()
8291 + correct assignment in assume_default_colors() which tells ncurses
8292 whether to use default colors, or the assumed ones (reported by Gary
8293 Funck <gary@Intrepid.Com>).
8294 + review/correct logic in mk-1st.awk for making symbolic links for
8295 shared libraries, in particular for FreeBSD, etc.
8296 + regenerate misc/*.def files for OS/2 EMX dll's.
8297 + correct quoting of values for CC_SHARED_OPTS in aclocal.m4 for
8298 cases openbsd2*, openbsd*, freebsd* and netbsd* (patch by Peter
8299 Wemm) (err in 20000610).
8300 + minor updates to release notes, as well as adding/updating URLs for
8301 examples cited in announce.html
8302 > several fixes from Philippe Blain <philippe.blain2@freesbee.fr>:
8303 + correct placement of ifdef for NCURSES_XNAMES in function
8304 _nc_free_termtype(), fixes a memory leak.
8305 + add a call to _nc_synchook() to the end of function whline() like
8306 that in wvline() (difference was in 1.9.4).
8307 + make ClearScreen() a little faster by moving two instances of
8308 UpdateAttr() out of for-loops.
8309 + simplify ClrBottom() by eliminating the tstLine data, using for-loops
8312 20000701 pre-release
8313 + change minor version to 1, i.e., ncurses 5.1
8314 + add experimental configure option --enable-colorfgbg to check for
8315 $COLORTERM variable as set by rxvt/aterm/Eterm.
8316 + add Eterm terminfo entry (Michael Jennings <mej@valinux.com>).
8317 + modify manlinks.sed to pick aliases from the SYNOPSIS section, and
8318 several manpages so manlinks.sed can find aliases for creating
8320 + add explanation to run_tic.sh regarding extended terminal
8322 + change message format for edit_cfg.sh, since some people interpret
8324 + correct unescaped '$' in sysv5uw7*|unix_sv* rule for CF_SHARED_OPTS
8325 configure macro (report by Thanh Ma <Thanh.Ma@casi-rusco.com>).
8326 + correct logic in lib_twait.c as used by lib_mouse.c for GPM mouse
8327 support when poll() is used rather than select() (prompted by
8328 discussion with David Allen <DAllen24@aol.com>).
8330 20000624 pre-release
8331 + modify TransformLine() to check for cells with different color pairs
8332 that happen to render the same display colors.
8333 + apply $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to cost-computation in mvcur().
8334 + improve cost computation in PutRange() by accounting for the use
8335 of parm_right_cursor in mvcur().
8336 + correct cost computation in EmitRange(), which was not using the
8337 normalized value for cursor_address.
8338 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in TIN 1.5.6).
8341 + update config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in PCRE 3.2).
8342 + resync changes to gnathtml against version 1.22, regenerated html
8343 files under doc/html/ada using this (1.22.1.1).
8344 + regenerated html files under doc/html/man after correcting top and
8345 bottom margin options for man2html in dist.mk
8346 + minor fixes to test programs ncurses 'i' and testcurs program to make
8347 the subwindow's background color cover the subwindow.
8348 + modify configure script so AC_MSG_ERROR is temporarily defined to a
8349 warning in AC_PROG_CXX to make it recover from a missing C++ compiler
8350 without requiring user to add --without-cxx option (adapted from
8351 comment by Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr> to autoconf mailing list).
8352 + modify headers.sh to avoid creating temporary files in the build
8353 directory when installing headers (reported by Sergei Pokrovsky
8357 + regenerated the html files under doc/html/ada/files and
8358 doc/html/ada/funcs with a slightly-improved gnathtml.
8359 + add kmous capability to linux terminfo entry to allow it to use
8360 xterm-style events provided by gpm patch by Joerg Schoen.
8361 + make the configure macro CF_SHARED_OPTS a little smarter by testing
8362 if -fPIC is supported by gcc rather than -fpic. The former option
8363 allows larger symbol tables.
8364 + update config.guess and config.sub (patches by
8365 Kevin Buettner <kev@primenet.com> (for elf64_ia64),
8366 Bernd Kuemmerlen <bkuemmer@mevis.de> (for MacOS X)).
8367 + add warning for 'tic -cv' about use of '^?' in terminfo source, which
8371 + modify echo() behavior of getch() to match Solaris curses for
8372 carriage return and backspace (reported by Neil Zanella).
8373 + change _nc_flush() to a function.
8374 + modify delscreen() to check if the output stream has been closed, and
8375 if so, free the buffer allocated for setbuf (this provides an
8376 ncurses-specific way to avoid a memory leak when repeatedly calling
8377 newterm reported by Chipp C <at_1@zdnetonebox.com>).
8378 + correct typo in curs_getch.3x manpage regarding noecho (reported by
8379 David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>).
8380 + add a "make libs" rule.
8381 + make the Ada95 interface build with configure --enable-widec.
8382 + if the configure --enable-widec option is given, append 'w' to names
8383 of the generated libraries (e.g., libncursesw.so) to avoid conflict
8384 with existing ncurses libraries.
8387 + modify view.c to make a rudimentary viewer of UTF-8 text if ncurses
8388 is configured with the experimental wide-character support.
8389 + add a simple UTF-8 output driver to the experimental wide-character
8390 support. If any of the environment variables LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE or
8391 LANG contain the string "UTF-8", this driver will be used to
8392 translate the output to UTF-8. This works with XFree86 xterm.
8393 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries on BeOS
8394 (from a patch by Valeriy E Ushakov).
8395 + modify lib_addch.c to allow repeated update to the lower-right
8396 corner, rather than displaying only the first character written until
8397 the cursor is moved. Recent versions of SVr4 curses can update the
8398 lower-right corner, and behave this way (reported by Neil Zanella).
8399 + add a limit-check in _nc_do_color(), to avoid using invalid color
8400 pair value (report by Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>).
8403 + the tack program knows how to use smcup and rmcup but the "show caps
8404 that can be tested" feature did not reflect this knowledge. Correct
8405 the display in the menu tack/test/edit/c (patch by Daniel Weaver).
8406 + xterm-16color does allow bold+colors, removed ncv#32 from that
8410 + correct assignment to SP->_has_sgr_39_49 in lib_dft_fgbg.c, which
8411 broke check for screen's AX capability (reported by Valeriy E Ushakov
8413 + change man2html rule in dist.mk to workaround bug in some
8414 man-programs that ignores locale when rendering hyphenation.
8415 + change web- and ftp-site to dickey.his.com
8418 + move _nc_curr_token from parse_entry.c to comp_scan.c, to work around
8419 problem linking tack on MacOS X DP3.
8420 + include <sys/time.h> in lib_napms.c to compile on MacOS X DP3
8421 (reported by Gerben Wierda <wierda@holmes.nl>).
8422 + modify lib_vidattr.c to check for ncv fixes when pair-0 is not
8424 + add -d option to ncurses.c, to turn on default-colors for testing.
8425 + add a check to _nc_makenew() to ensure that newwin() and newpad()
8426 calls do not silently fail by passing too-large limits.
8427 + add symbol NCURSES_SIZE_T to use rather than explicit 'short' for
8428 internal window and pad sizes. Note that since this is visible in
8429 the WINDOW struct, it would be an ABI change to make this an 'int'
8430 (prompted by a question by Bastian Trompetter
8431 <btrompetter@firemail.de>, who attempted to create a 96000-line pad).
8434 + add mgterm terminfo entry from NetBSD, minor adjustments to sun-ss5,
8436 + modify tack/ansi.c to make it more tolerant of bad ANSI replies. An
8437 example of an illegal ANSI resonse can be found using Microsoft's
8438 Telnet client. A correct display can be found using a VT-4xx
8439 terminal or XFree86 xterm with:
8440 XTerm*VT100*decTerminalID: 450
8441 (patch by Daniel Weaver).
8442 + modify gdc.c to recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' '
8443 for resume. Add '-n' option to force gdc's standard input to
8444 /dev/null, to both illustrate the use of newterm() for specifying
8445 alternate inputs as well as for testing signal handling.
8446 + minor fix for configure option --with-manpage-symlinks, for target
8447 directories that contain a period ('.') (reported by Larry Virden).
8450 + minor additions to beterm entry (feedback from Rico Tudor) -TD
8451 + corrections/updates for some IBM terminfo entries -TD
8452 + modify _nc_screen_wrap() so that when exiting curses mode with
8453 non-default colors, the last line on the screen will be cleared to
8454 the screen's default colors (request by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8455 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example to set nonl(), allowing control/M to be
8456 read for demonstrating the REQ_NEW_LINE operation (prompted by a
8457 question by Tony L Keith <tlkeith@keithconsulting.com>).
8458 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example of field_info() to work on Solaris 2.7,
8459 documented extension of ncurses which allows a zero pointer.
8460 + modify fmt_complex() to avoid buffer overflow in case of excess
8461 recursion, and to recognize "%e%?" as a synonym for else-if, which
8462 means that it will not recur for that special case.
8463 + add logic to support $TERMCAP variable in case the USE_GETCAP symbol
8464 is defined (patch by Todd C Miller).
8465 + modify one of the m4 files used to generate the Ada95 sources,
8466 to avoid using the token "symbols" (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
8469 + add terminfo entries bsdos-pc-m, bsdos-pc-mono (Jeffrey C Honig)
8470 + correct spelling error in terminfo entry name: bq300-rv was given as
8471 bg300-rv in esr's version.
8472 + modify redrawwin() macro so its parameter is fully parenthesized
8473 (fixes Debian #61088).
8474 + correct formatting error in dump_entry() which set incorrect column
8475 value when no newline trimming was needed at the end of an entry,
8476 before appending "use=" clauses (cf: 960406).
8479 + add configure option --with-manpage-symlinks
8480 + change unctrl() to render C1 characters (128-159) as ~@, ~A, etc.
8481 + change makefiles so trace() function is provided only if TRACE is
8482 defined, e.g., in the debug library. Modify related calls to
8483 _tracechar() to use unctrl() instead.
8486 + add screen's AX capability (for ECMA SGR 39 and 49) to applicable
8487 terminfo entries, use presence of this as a check for a small
8488 improvement in setting default colors.
8489 + improve logic in _nc_do_color() implementing assume_default_colors()
8490 by passing in previous color pair info to eliminate redundant call to
8491 set_original_colors(). (Part of this is from a patch by Alexander
8493 + modify warning in _nc_trans_string() about a possibly too-long string
8494 to do this once only rather than for each character past the
8495 threshold (600). Change interface of _nc_trans_string() to allow
8496 check for buffer overflow.
8497 + correct use of memset in _nc_read_entry_source() to initialize ENTRY
8498 struct each time before reading new data into it, rather than once
8499 per loop (cf: 990301). This affects multi-entry in-core operations
8500 such as "infocmp -Fa".
8503 + remove a spurious pointer increment in _nc_infotocap() changes from
8504 20000311. Add check for '.' in format of number, since that also
8505 is not permitted in termcap.
8506 + correct typo in rxvt-basic terminfo from temporary change made while
8507 integrating 20000318.
8510 + revert part of the vt220 change (request by Todd C Miller).
8511 + add ansi-* terminfo entries from ESR's version.
8512 + add -a option to tic and infocmp, which retains commented-out
8513 capabilities during source translation/comparison, e.g., captoinfo
8515 + modify cardfile.c to display an empty card if no input data file is
8516 found, fixes a core dump in that case (reported by Bruno Haible).
8517 + correct bracketing in CF_MATH_LIB configure macro, which gave wrong
8518 result for OS/2 EMX.
8519 + supply required parameter for _nc_resolve_uses() call in
8520 read_termcap.c, overlooked in 20000311 (reported by Todd C Miller).
8521 > patches by Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr>:
8522 + fix a compiler warning in fty_enum.c
8523 + correct LIB_PREFIX expression for DEPS_CURSES in progs, tack
8524 makefiles, which resulted in redundant linking (cf: 20000122).
8527 + make ifdef's for BROKEN_LINKER consistent (patch by Todd C Miller).
8528 + improved tack/README (patch by Daniel Weaver).
8529 + modify tput.c to ensure that unspecified parameters are passed to
8531 + add a few checks in infocmp to guard against buffer overflow when
8532 displaying string capabilities.
8533 + add check for zero-uses in infocmp's file_comparison() function
8534 before calling _nc_align_termtype(). Otherwise one parameter is
8535 indexed past the end of the uses-array.
8536 + add an option -q to infocmp to specify the less verbose output,
8537 keeping the existing format as the default, though not retaining the
8538 previous behavior that made the -F option compare each entry to
8540 + adapted patch by ESR to make infocmp -F less verbose -TD
8541 (the submitted patch was unusable because it did not compile
8543 + modify write_entry.c to ensure that absent or cancelled booleans
8544 are written as FALSE, for consistency with infocmp which now
8545 assumes this. Note that for the small-core configuration, tic
8546 may not produce the same result as before.
8547 + change some private library interfaces used by infocmp, e.g.,
8549 + add a check in _nc_infotocap() to ensure that cm-style capabilities
8550 accept only %d codes when converting the format from terminfo to
8552 + modify ENTRY struct to separate the data in 'parent' into the name
8553 and link values (the original idea to merge both into 'parent' was
8555 + discard repair_acsc(tterm);
8556 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8557 + drop support for gnat 3.10
8558 + move generated documentation and html files under ./doc directory,
8559 adding makefile rules for this to dist.mk
8562 + correct conflicting use of tparm() in 20000226 change to tic, which
8563 made it check only one entry at a time.
8564 + fix errors in ncurses-intro.html and hackguide.html shown by Dave
8566 + make the example in ncurses-intro.html do something plausible, and
8567 corrected misleading comment (reported by Neil Zanella).
8568 + modify pnoutrefresh() to set newscr->_leaveok as wnoutrefresh() does,
8569 to fix a case where the cursor position was not updated as in
8570 Solaris (patch by David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>).
8571 + add a limit-check for wresize() to ensure that a subwindow does not
8572 address out of bounds.
8573 + correct offsets used for subwindows in wresize() (patch by Michael
8574 Andres <ma@suse.de>).
8575 + regenerate html'ized manual pages with man2html 3.0.1 (patch by
8576 Juergen Pfeifer). This generated a file with a space in its name,
8578 + fix a few spelling errors in tack.
8579 + modify tack/Makefile.in to match linker options of progs/Makefile.in;
8580 otherwise it does not build properly for older HPUX shared library
8582 + add several terminfo entries from esr's "11.0".
8585 + make 'tput flash' work properly for xterm by flushing output in
8586 delay_output() when using napms(), and modifying xterm's terminfo to
8587 specify no padding character. Otherwise, xterm's reported baud rate
8588 can mislead ncurses into producing too few padding characters
8590 + add a check to tic for consistency between sgr and the separate
8591 capabilities such as smso, use this to check/correct several
8592 terminfo entries (Debian #58530).
8593 + add a check to tic if cvvis is the same as cnorm, adjusted several
8594 terminfo entries to remove the conflict (Debian #58530).
8595 + correct prototype shown in attr_set()/wattr_set() manpages (fixes
8597 + minor clarification for curs_set() and leaveok() manpages.
8598 + use mkstemp() for creating temporary file for tic's processing of
8599 $TERMCAP contents (fixes Debian #56465).
8600 + correct two errors from integrating Alexander's changes: did not
8601 handle the non-bce case properly in can_erase_with() (noted by
8602 Alexander), and left fg/bg uninitialized in the pair-zero case of
8603 _nc_do_color() (reported by Dr Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> and
8604 Ismael Cordeiro <ismael@cordeiro.com>).
8607 + store default-color code consistently as C_MASK, even if given as
8608 -1 for convenience (adapted from patches by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8609 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
8610 + change can_clear_with() macro to accommodate logic for
8611 assume_default_colors(), making most of the FILL_BCE logic
8612 unnecessary. Made can_clear_with() an inline function to make it
8616 + corrected form of recent copyright dates.
8617 + minor corrections to xterm-xf86-v333 terminfo entry -TD
8618 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
8619 + reworded dft_fgbg.3x to avoid assuming that the terminal's default
8620 colors are white on black.
8621 + fix initialization of tstLine so that it is filled with current blank
8622 character in any case. Previously it was possible to have it filled
8623 with old blank. The wrong over-optimization was introduced in 991002
8624 patch. (it is not very critical as the only bad effect is not using
8625 clr_eos for clearing if blank has changed).
8628 + minor corrections/updates to several terminfo entries: rxvt-basic,
8629 vt520, vt525, ibm5151, xterm-xf86-v40 -TD
8630 + modify ifdef's for poll() to allow it to use <sys/poll.h>, thereby
8631 allowing poll() to be used on Linux.
8632 + add CF_FUNC_POLL macro to check if poll() is able to select from
8633 standard input. If not we will not use it, preferring select()
8634 (adapted from patch by Michael Pakovic <mpakovic@fdn.com>).
8635 + update CF_SHARED_OPTS macro for SCO Unixware 7.1 to allow building
8636 shared libraries (reported/tested by Thanh <thanhma@mediaone.net>).
8637 + override $LANGUAGE in build to avoid incorrect ordering of keynames.
8638 + correct CF_MATH_LIB parameter, must be sin(x), not sqrt(x).
8641 + resync CF_CHECK_ERRNO and CF_LIB_PREFIX macros from tin and xterm -TD
8642 + modify CF_MATH_LIB configure macro to parameterize the test function
8643 used, for reuse in dialog and similar packages.
8644 + correct tests for file-descriptors in OS/2 EMX mouse support. A
8645 negative value could be used by FD_SET, causing the select() call
8646 to wait indefinitely.
8649 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of delete_character)
8650 to work when assume_default_colors() is not specified.
8651 + modify warning message from _nc_parse_entry() regarding extended
8652 capability names to print only if tic/infocmp/toe have the -v flag
8653 set, and not at all in ordinary user applications. Otherwise, this
8654 warning would be shown for screen's extended capabilities in programs
8655 that use the termcap interface (reported by Todd C Miller).
8656 + modify use of _nc_tracing from programs such as tic so their debug
8657 level is not in the same range as values set by trace() function.
8658 + small panel header cleanup (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
8659 + add 'railroad' demo for termcap interface.
8660 + modify 'tic' to write its usage message to stderr (patch by Todd C
8664 + add prototype for erase() to curses.h.in, needed to make test
8665 programs build with c++/g++.
8666 + add .c.i and .c.h suffix rules to generated makefiles, for debugging.
8667 + correct install rule for tack.1; it assumed that file was in the
8668 current directory (reported by Mike Castle <dalgoda@ix.netcom.com>).
8669 + modify terminfo/termcap translation to suppress acsc before trying
8670 sgr if the entry would be too large (patch by Todd C Miller).
8671 + document a special case of incompatiblity between ncurses 4.2 and
8672 5.0, add a section for this in INSTALL.
8673 + add TRACE_DATABASE flag for trace().
8676 + update mach, add mach-color terminfo entries based on Debian diffs
8678 + add entries for xterm-hp, xterm-vt220, xterm-vt52 and xterm-noapp
8679 terminfo entries -TD
8680 + change OTrs capabilities to rs2 in terminfo.src -TD
8681 + add obsolete and extended capabilities to 'screen' terminfo -TD
8682 + corrected conversion from terminfo rs2 to termcap rs (cf: 980704)
8683 + make conversion to termcap ug (underline glitch) more consistently
8685 + fix out-of-scope use of 'personal[]' buffer in 'toe' (this error
8686 was in the original pre-1.9.7 version, when $HOME/.terminfo was
8688 + modify 'toe' to ignore terminfo directories to which it has no
8690 + modify read_termtype(), fixing 'toe', which could dump core when it
8691 found an incomplete entry such as "dumb" because it did not
8692 initialize its buffer for _nc_read_file_entry().
8693 + use -fPIC rather than -fpic for shared libraries on Linux, not
8694 needed for i386 but some ports (from Debian diffs for 5.0) -TD
8695 + use explicit VALID_NUMERIC() checks in a few places that had been
8696 overlooked, and add a check to ensure that init_tabs is nonzero,
8697 to avoid divide-by-zero (reported by Todd C Miller).
8698 + minor fix for CF_ANSI_CC_CHECK configure macro, for HPUX 10.x (from
8702 + reorder tests during mouse initialization to allow for gpm to run in
8703 xterm, or for xterm to be used under OS/2 EMX. Also drop test for
8704 $DISPLAY in favor of kmous=\E[M or $TERM containing "xterm" (report
8705 by Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>).
8706 + modify raw() and noraw() to clear/restore IEXTEN flag which affects
8707 stty lnext on systems such as FreeBSD (report by Bruce Evans
8708 <bde@zeta.org.au>, via Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>).
8709 + fix a potential (but unlikely) buffer overflow in failed() function
8710 of tset.c (reported by Todd C Miller).
8711 + add manual-page for ncurses extensions, documented curses_version(),
8712 use_extended_names().
8715 + treat as untranslatable to termcap those terminfo strings which
8716 contain non-decimal formatting, e.g., hexadecimal or octal.
8717 + correct commented-out capabilities that cannot be translated to
8718 termcap, which did not check if a colon must be escaped.
8719 + correct termcap translation for "%>" and "%+", which did not check
8720 if a colon must be escaped, for instance.
8721 + use save_string/save_char for _nc_captoinfo() to eliminate fixed
8722 buffer (originally for _nc_infotocap() in 960301 -TD).
8723 + correct expression used for terminfo equivalent of termcap %B,
8724 adjust regent100 entry which uses this.
8725 + some cleanup and commenting of ad hoc cases in _nc_infotocap().
8726 + eliminate a fixed-buffer in tic, used for translating comments.
8727 + add manpage for infotocap
8730 + add kvt and gnome terminfo entries -TD
8731 + correct translation of "%%" by infotocap, which was emitted as "%".
8732 + add "obsolete" termcap strings to terminfo.src
8733 + modify infocmp to default to showing obsolete capabilities rather
8735 + modify write_entry.c so that if extended names (i.e., configure
8736 --enable-tcap-names) are active, then tic will also write "obsolete"
8737 capabilities that are present in the terminfo source.
8738 + modify tic so that when running as captoinfo or infotocap, it
8739 initializes the output format as in -C and -I options, respectively.
8740 + improve infocmp and tic -f option by splitting long strings that do
8741 not have if-then-else construct, but do have parameters, e.g., the
8742 initc for xterm-88color.
8743 + refine MKtermsort.sh slightly by using bool for the *_from_termcap
8747 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of clear_screen,
8748 clr_eol, clr_eos, scrolling) to work when assume_default_colors() is
8750 + several small changes to xterm terminfo entries -TD.
8751 + move logic for _nc_windows in lib_freeall.c inside check for nonnull
8752 SP, since it is part of that struct.
8753 + remove obsolete shlib-versions, which was unintentionally re-added
8755 + modify infocmp -e, -E options to ensure that generated fallback.c
8756 type for Booleans agrees with term.h (reported by Eric Norum
8757 <eric@cls.usask.ca>).
8758 + correct configure script's use of $LIB_PREFIX, which did not work
8759 for installing the c++ directory if $libdir did not end with "/lib"
8760 (reported by Huy Le <huyle@ugcs.caltech.edu>).
8761 + modify infocmp so -L and -f options work together.
8762 + modify the initialization of SP->_color_table[] in start_color() so
8763 that color_content() will return usable values for COLORS greater
8765 + modify ncurses 'd' test in case COLORS is greater than 16, e.g., for
8766 xterm-88color, to limit the displayed/computed colors to 16.
8767 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8768 + simplify coding of the panel library according to suggestions by
8770 + improve macro coding for a few macros in curses.priv.h
8773 + modify treatment of color pair 0 so that if ncurses is configured
8774 to support default colors, and they are not active, then ncurses
8775 will set that explicitly, not relying on orig_colors or orig_pair.
8776 + add new extension, assume_default_colors() to provide better control
8777 over the use of default colors.
8778 + modify test programs to use more-specific ifdef's for existence of
8779 wresize(), resizeterm() and use_default_colors().
8780 + modify configure script to add specific ifdef's for some functions
8781 that are included when --enable-ext-funcs is in effect, so their
8782 existence can be ifdef'd in the test programs.
8783 + reorder some configure options, moving those extensions that have
8784 evolved from experimental status into a new section.
8785 + change configure --enable-tcap-names to enable this by default.
8788 + install tack's manpage (reported by Robert Weiner
8789 <robert@progplus.com>)
8790 + correct worm.c's handling of KEY_RESIZE (patch by Frank Heckenbach).
8791 + modify curses.h.in, undef'ing some symbols to avoid conflict with C++
8792 STL (reported by Matt Gerassimoff <mgeras@ticon.net>)
8795 + modify linux terminfo entry to indicate that dim does not mix with
8796 color (reported by Klaus Weide <kweide@enteract.com>).
8797 + correct several typos in terminfo entries related to missing '['
8799 + fix several compiler warnings in c++ binding (reported by Tim
8800 Mooney for alphaev56-dec-osf4.0f
8801 + rename parameter of _nc_free_entries() to accommodate lint.
8802 + correct lint rule for tack, used incorrect list of source files.
8803 + add case to config.guess, config.sub for Rhapsody.
8804 + improve configure tests for libg++ and libstdc++ by omitting the
8805 math library (which is missing on Rhapsody), and improved test for
8806 the math library itself (adapted from path by Nelson H. F. Beebe).
8807 + explicitly initialize to zero several data items which were
8808 implicitly initialized, e.g., cur_term. If not explicitly
8809 initialized, their storage type is C (common), and causes problems
8810 linking on Rhapsody 5.5 using gcc 2.7.2.1 (reported by Nelson H. F.
8812 + modify Ada95 binding to not include the linker option for Ada
8813 bindings in the Ada headers, but in the Makefiles instead (patch by
8816 19991023 5.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
8817 + effective with release of 5.0, change NCURSES_VERSION_PATCH to
8819 + add function curses_version(), to return ncurses library version
8820 (request by Bob van der Poel).
8821 + remove rmam, smam from cygwin terminfo entry.
8822 + modify FreeBSD cons25 terminfo entry to add cnorm and cvvis, as well
8823 as update ncv to indicate that 'dim' conflicts with colors.
8824 + modify configure script to use symbolic links for FreeBSD shared
8825 libraries by default.
8826 + correct ranf() function in rain and worm programs to ensure it does
8828 + hide the cursor in hanoi.c if it is running automatically.
8829 + amend lrtest.c to account for optimizations that exploit margin
8831 + add a simple terminfo demo, dots.c
8832 + modify SIGINT/SIGQUIT handler to set a flag used in _nc_outch() to
8833 tell it to use write() rather than putc(), since the latter is not
8834 safe in a signal handler according to POSIX.
8835 + add/use internal macros _nc_flush() and NC_OUTPUT to hide details
8836 of output-file pointer in ncurses library.
8837 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS (see 971115), since they are needed for SCO
8839 + correct CC_SHARED_OPTS for building shared libraries for SCO
8841 + remove usleep() from alternatives in napms(), since it may interact
8842 with alarm(), causing a process to be interrupted by SIGALRM (with
8843 advice from Bela Lubkin).
8844 + modify terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4 to build/work with
8845 GNAT 3.10 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
8846 + remove part of CF_GPP_LIBRARY configure-script macro, which did not
8847 work with gcc 2.7.2.3
8848 + minor fix to test/tclock.c to avoid beeping more than once per second
8849 + add 's' and ' ' decoding to test/rain.c
8852 + corrected BeOS code for lib_twait.c, making nodelay() function work.
8855 + correct ncurses' value for cursor-column in PutCharLR(), which was
8856 off-by-one in one case (patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
8857 + fix some minor errors in position_check() debugging code, found while
8858 using this to validate the PutCharLR() patch.
8859 + modify firework, lrtest, worm examples to be resizable, and to
8860 recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' ' for resume.
8861 + restore reverted change to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
8862 add a note on building with gnat 3.10p to Ada95/TODO.
8863 + add a copy of the standalone configure script for the test-directory
8864 to simplify testing on SCO and Solaris.
8867 + minor fixes for _nc_msec_cost(), color_content(), pair_content(),
8868 _nc_freewin(), ClrBottom() and onscreen_mvcur() (analysis by Philippe
8869 Blain, comments by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8870 + simplify definition of PANEL and eliminate internal functions
8871 _nc_calculate_obscure(), _nc_free_obscure() and _nc_override(),
8872 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer, analysis by Philippe Blain
8874 + change renaming of dft_fgbg.3x to use_default_colors.3ncurses in
8875 man_db.renames, since Debian is not concerned with 14-character
8876 filename limitation (Debian bug report by Josip Rodin
8877 <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>).
8878 + corrected scoansi terminfo entry by testing with scoterm and console.
8879 + revert change from 990614 to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
8880 since this does not work for gnat 3.10p
8881 + modify tclock example to be resizable (if ncurses' sigwinch handler
8882 is used), and in color.
8883 + use $(CC) rather than 'gcc' in MK_SHARED_LIB symbols, used for Linux
8884 shared library rules.
8887 + add newer NetBSD console terminfo entries
8888 + add amiga-8bit terminfo entry (from Henning 'Faroul' Peters
8889 <Faroul@beyond.kn-bremen.de>)
8890 + remove -lcurses -ltermcap from configure script's check for the gpm
8891 library, since they are not really necessary (a properly configured
8892 gpm library has no dependency on any curses library), and if the
8893 curses library is not installed, this would cause the test to fail.
8894 + modify tic's -C option so that terminfo "use=" clauses are translated
8895 to "tc=" clauses even when running it as captoinfo.
8896 + modify CF_STDCPP_LIBRARY configure macro to perform its check only
8897 for GNU C++, since that library conflicts with SGI's libC on IRIX-6.2
8898 + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro to support build on NetBSD with
8899 ELF libraries (patch by Bernd Ernesti <bernd@arresum.inka.de>).
8900 + correct a problem in libpanel, where the _nc_top_panel variable was
8901 not set properly when bottom_panel() is called to hide a panel which
8902 is the only one on the stack (report/analysis by Michael Andres
8903 <ma@suse.de>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
8906 + add acsc string to HP 70092 terminfo entry (patch by Joerg Wunsch
8907 <j@interface-business.de>).
8908 + add top-level uninstall.data and uninstall.man makefile rules.
8909 + correct logic of CF_LINK_FUNCS configure script, from BeOS changes so
8910 that hard-links work on Unix again.
8911 + change default value of cf_cv_builtin_bool to 1 (suggested by
8912 Jeremy Buhler), making it less likely that a conflicting declaration
8913 of bool will be seen when compiling with C++.
8916 + improved configure checks for builtin.h
8917 + minor changes to C++ binding (remove static initializations, and make
8918 configure-test for parameter initializations) for features not
8919 allowed by vendor's C++ compilers (reported by Martin Mokrejs, this
8920 applies to SGI, though I found SCO has the same characteristics).
8921 + corrected quoting of ETIP_xxx definitions which support old versions
8922 of g++, e.g., those using -lg++
8923 + remove 'L' code from safe_sprintf.c, since 'long double' is not
8924 widely portable. safe_sprintf.c is experimental, however, and
8925 exists mainly as a fallback for systems without snprintf (reported
8926 by Martin Mokrejs <mmokrejs@natur.cuni.cz>, for IRIX 6.2)
8927 + modify definition of _nc_tinfo_fkeys in broken-linker configuration
8928 so that it is not unnecessarily made extern (Jeffrey C Honig).
8931 + move definition for builtin.h in configure tests to specific check
8932 for libg++, since qt uses the same filename incompatibly.
8933 + correct logic of lib_termcap.c tgetstr function, which did not copy
8934 the result to the buffer parameter. Testing shows Solaris does
8935 update this, though of course tgetent's buffer is untouched (reported
8936 in Peter Edwards <peter.edwards@ireland.com> in
8937 mpc.lists.freebsd.current newsgroup.
8938 + corrected beterm terminfo entry, which lists some capabilities which
8939 are not actually provided by the BeOS Terminal.
8940 + add special logic to replace select() calls on BeOS, whose select()
8941 function works only for sockets.
8942 + correct missing escape in mkterm.h.awk.in, which caused part
8943 of the copyright noticed to be omitted (reported by Peter
8944 Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>).
8945 > several small changes to make the c++ binding and demo work on OS/2
8946 EMX (related to a clean reinstall of EMX):
8947 + correct library-prefix for c++ binding; none is needed.
8948 + add $x suffix to make_hash and make_keys so 'make distclean' works.
8949 + correct missing $x suffix for tack, c++ demo executables.
8950 + split CF_CXX_LIBRARY into CF_GPP_LIBRARY (for -lg++) and
8951 CF_STDCPP_LIBRARY (for -lstdc++)
8954 + add cygwin terminfo entry -TD
8955 + modify CF_PROG_EXT configure macro to set .exe extension for cygwin.
8956 + add configure option --without-cxx-binding, modifying the existing
8957 --without-cxx option to check only for the C++ compiler
8958 characteristics. Whether or not the C++ binding is needed, the
8959 configure script checks for the size/type of bool, to make ncurses
8960 match. Otherwise C++ applications cannot use ncurses.
8963 + updated configure macros CF_MAKEFLAGS, CF_CHECK_ERRNO
8964 + minor corrections to beterm terminfo entry.
8965 + modify lib_setup.c to reject values of $TERM which have a '/' in
8967 + add ifdef's to guard against CS5, CS6, CS7, CS8 being zero, as more
8968 than one is on BeOS. That would break a switch statement.
8969 + add configure macro CF_LINK_FUNCS to detect and work around BeOS's
8970 nonfunctional link().
8971 + improved configure macros CF_BOOL_DECL and CF_BOOL_SIZE to detect
8972 BeOS's bool, which is declared as an unsigned char.
8975 + add ms-vt100 terminfo entry -TD
8976 + minor fixes for misc/emx.src, based on testing with tack.
8977 + minor fix for test/ncurses.c, test 'a', in case ncv is not set.
8980 + minor correction for 'screen' terminfo entry.
8981 + clarify description of errret values for setupterm in manpage.
8982 + modify tput to allow it to emit capabilities for hardcopy terminals
8983 (patch by Goran Uddeborg <goeran@uddeborg.pp.se>).
8984 + modify the 'o' (panel) test in ncurses.c to show the panels in color
8985 or at least in bold, to test Juergen's change to wrefresh().
8986 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
8987 + Fixes a problem using wbkgdset() with panels. It has actually
8988 nothing to with panels but is a problem in the implementation of
8989 wrefresh(). Whenever a window changes its background attribute to
8990 something different than newscr's background attribute, the whole
8991 window is touched to force a copy to newscr. This is an unwanted
8992 side-effect of wrefresh() and it is actually not necessary. A
8993 changed background attribute affects only further outputs of
8994 background it doesn't mean anything to the current content of the
8995 window. So there is no need to force a copy. (reported by Frank
8996 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>).
8997 + an upward compatible enhancement of the NCursesPad class in the C++
8998 binding. It allows one to add a "viewport" window to a pad and then
8999 to use panning to view the pad through the viewport window.
9002 + suppress a call to def_prog_mode() in the SIGTSTP handler if the
9003 signal was received while not in curses mode, e.g., endwin() was
9004 called in preparation for spawning a shell command (reported by Frank
9005 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
9006 + corrected/enhanced xterm-r5, xterm+sl, xterm+sl-twm terminfo entries.
9007 + change test for xterm mouse capability: it now checks only if the
9008 user's $DISPLAY variable is set in conjunction with the kmous
9009 capability being present in the terminfo. Before, it checked if any
9010 of "xterm", "rxvt" or "kterm" were substrings of the terminal name.
9011 However, some emulators which are incompatible with xterm in other
9012 ways do support the xterm mouse capability.
9013 + reviewed and made minor changes in ncurses to quiet g++ warnings
9014 about shadowed or uninitialized variables. g++ incorrectly warns
9015 about uninitialized variables because it does not take into account
9016 short-circuit expression evaluation.
9017 + change ncurses 'b' test to start in color pair 0 and to show in the
9018 right margin those attributes which are suppressed by no_color_video,
9020 + modify ifdef's in curses.h so that __attribute__ is not redefined
9021 when compiling with g++, but instead disabled the macros derived for
9022 __attribute__ since g++ does not consistently recognize the same
9023 keywords as gcc (reported by Stephan K Zitz <zitz@erf.net>).
9024 + update dependencies for term.h in ncurses/modules (reported by
9028 + modify the form demo in ncurses.c to illustrate how to manipulate the
9029 field appearance, e.g, for highlighting or translating the field
9031 + correct logic in write_entry from split-out of home_terminfo in
9032 980919, which prevented update of $HOME/.terminfo (reported by Philip
9033 Spencer <pspencer@fields.utoronto.ca>).
9036 + modify linux terminfo description to make use of kernel 2.2.x mods
9037 that support cursor style, e.g., to implement cvvis (patch by Frank
9038 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
9039 + add special-case in setupterm to retain previously-saved terminal
9040 settings in cur_term, which happens when curses and termcap calls are
9041 mixed (from report by Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@dhc.net>).
9042 + suppress initialization of key-tries in _nc_keypad() if we are only
9043 disabling keypad mode, e.g., in endwin() called when keypad() was
9045 + modify the Ada95 makefile to ensure that always the Ada files from
9046 the development tree are used for building and not the eventually
9047 installed ones (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9050 + use TTY definition in tack/sysdep.c rather than struct termios
9051 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
9052 + add a fallback for strstr, used in lib_mvcur.c and tack/edit.c,
9053 not present on sysV68 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
9054 + correct definition in comp_hash.c to build with configure
9055 --with-rcs-ids option.
9058 + modified ifdef's for sigaction and sigvec to ensure we do not try to
9059 handle SIGTSTP if neither is available (from report by Philippe De
9061 > patch by Philippe De Muyter:
9062 + in tic.c, use `unlink' if `remove' is not available.
9063 + use only `unsigned' as fallback value for `speed_t'. Some files used
9067 + fix some compiler warnings in tack.
9068 + add a check for predefined bool type in CC, based on report that
9069 BeOS predefines a bool type.
9070 + correct logic for infocmp -e option, i.e., the configure
9071 --with-fallbacks option, which I'd not updated when implementing
9072 extended names (cf: 990301). The new implementation adds a "-E"
9073 option to infocmp -TD
9074 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9075 + introduce the private type Curses_Bool in the Ada95 binding
9076 implementation. This is to clearly represent the use of "bool" also
9077 in the binding. It should have no effect on the generated code.
9078 + improve the man page for field_buffer() to tell the people, that the
9079 whole buffer including leading/trailing spaces is returned. This is
9080 a common source of confusion, so it's better to document it clearly.
9083 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9084 + use pragma PreElaborate in several places.
9085 + change a few System.Address uses to more specific types.
9086 + change interface version-number to 1.0
9087 + regenerate Ada95 HTML files.
9090 + modify lib_endwin.c to avoid calling reset_shell_mode(), return ERR
9091 if it appears that curses was never initialized, e.g., by initscr().
9092 For instance, this guards against setting the terminal modes to
9093 strange values if endwin() is called after setupterm(). In the same
9094 context, Solaris curses will dump core.
9095 + modify logic that avoids a conflict in lib_vidattr.c between sgr0 and
9096 equivalent values in rmso or rmul by ensuring we do not modify the
9097 data which would be returned by the terminfo or termcap interfaces
9098 (reported by Brad Pepers <brad@linuxcanada.com>, cf: 960706).
9099 + add a null-pointer check for SP in lib_vidattr.c to logic that checks
9101 + improve fallback declaration of 'bool' when the --without-cxx option
9102 is given, by using a 'char' on i386 and related hosts (prompted by
9103 discussion with Alexander V Lukyanov).
9106 + include time.h in lib_napms.c if nanosleep is used (patch by
9107 R Lindsay Todd <toddr@rpi.edu>).
9108 + add an "#undef bool" to curses.h, in case someone tries to define it,
9110 + add check to tparm to guard against divide by zero (reported by Aaron
9111 Campbell <aaron@ug.cs.dal.ca>).
9114 + minor fix to build tack on CLIX (mismatched const).
9115 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9116 + change Juergen's old email address with new one in the files where it
9117 is referenced. The Ada95 HTML pages are regenerated.
9118 + update MANIFEST to list the tack files.
9121 + minor fixes to make 'tack' build/link on NeXT (reported by Francisco
9125 + add 'tack' program (which is GPL'd), updating it to work with the
9126 modified TERMTYPE struct and making a fix to support setaf/setab
9127 capabilities. Note that the tack program is not part of the
9128 ncurses libraries, but an application which can be distributed with
9129 ncurses. The configure script will ignore the directory if it is
9131 + modify gpm mouse support so that buttons 2 and 3 are used for
9132 select/paste only when shift key is pressed, making them available
9133 for use by an application (patch by Klaus Weide).
9134 + add complete list of function keys to scoansi terminfo entry - TD
9137 + add a simple test program cardfile.c to illustrate how to read form
9138 fields, and showing forms within panels.
9139 + change shared-library versioning for the Hurd to be like Linux rather
9140 than *BSD (patch by Mark Kettenis <kettenis@wins.uva.nl>).
9141 + add linux-lat terminfo entry.
9142 + back-out _nc_access check in read_termcap.c (both incorrect and
9143 unnecessary, except to guard against a small window where the file's
9144 ownership may change).
9147 + remove conflicting _nc_free_termtype() function from test module
9149 + use _nc_access check in read_termcap.c for termpaths[] array (noted
9150 by Jeremy Buhler, indicating that Alan Cox made a similar patch).
9151 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9152 + modify menu creation to not inherit status flag from the default menu
9153 which says that the associated marker string has been allocated and
9154 should be freed (bug reported by Marek Paliwoda"
9155 <paliwoda@kki.net.pl>)
9157 990327 pre-release (alpha.gnu.org:/gnu/ncurses-5.0-beta1.tar.gz)
9158 + minor fixes to xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry - TD.
9159 + split up an expression in configure script check for ldconfig to
9160 workaround limitation of BSD/OS sh (reported by Jeff Haas
9161 <jmh@mail.msen.com>).
9162 + correct a typo in man/form_hook.3x (Todd C Miller).
9165 + parenthesize and undef 'index' symbol in c++ binding and demo, to
9166 accommodate its definition on NeXT (reported by Francisco A. Tomei
9168 + add sigismember() to base/sigaction.c compatibility to link on NeXT
9169 (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
9170 + further refinements to inequality in hashmap.c to cover a case with
9171 ^U in nvi (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
9174 + add fallback definition for getcwd, to link on NeXT.
9175 + add a copy of cur_term to tic.c to make it link properly on NeXT
9176 (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
9177 + change inequality in hashmap.c which checks the distance traveled by
9178 a chunk so that ^D command in nvi (scrolls 1/2 screen) will use
9179 scrolling logic (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov, reported by Jeffrey
9183 + modify lib_color.c to handle a special case where the curscr
9184 attributes have been made obsolete (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
9185 + update BSD/OS console terminfo entries to use klone+sgr and
9186 klone+color (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
9187 + update glibc addon configure script for extended capabilities.
9188 + correct a couple of warnings in the --enable-const configuration.
9189 + make comp_hash build properly with _nc_strdup(), on NeXT (reported by
9190 Francisco A. Tomei Torres <francisco.tomei@cwix.com>).
9193 + correct typos in linux-c initc string - TD
9194 + add 'crt' terminfo entry, update xterm-xfree86 entry - TD
9195 + remove a spurious argument to tparm() in lib_sklrefr.c (patch by
9196 Alexander V Lukyanov).
9199 + back-out change to wgetch because it causes a problem with ^Z
9200 handling in lynx (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
9203 + add -G option to tic and infocmp, to reverse the "-g" option.
9204 + recode functions in name_match.c to avoid use of strncpy, which
9205 caused a 4-fold slowdown in tic (cf: 980530).
9206 + correct a few warnings about sign-extension in recent changes.
9207 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9208 + fixes suggested by Jeff Bradbury <jibradbury@lucent.com>:
9209 + improved parameter checking in new_fieldtype().
9210 + fixed a typo in wgetch() timeout handling.
9211 + allow slk_init() to be called per newterm call. The internal SLK
9212 state is stored in the SCREEN struct after every newterm() and then
9213 reset for the next newterm.
9214 + fix the problem that a slk_refresh() refreshes stdscr if the
9215 terminal has true SLKs.
9216 + update HTML documentation for Ada binding.
9219 + remove 'bool' casts from definitions of TRUE/FALSE so that statements
9220 such as "#if TRUE" work. This was originally done to allow for a C++
9221 compiler which would warn of implicit conversions between enum and
9222 int, but is not needed for g++ (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
9223 + add use_extended_names() function to allow applications to suppress
9224 read of the extended capabilities.
9225 + add configure option --enable-tcap-names to support logic which
9226 allows ncurses' tic to define new (i.e., extended) terminal
9227 capabilities. This is activated by the tic -x switch. The infocmp
9228 program automatically shows or compares extended capabilities.
9229 Note: This changes the Strings and similar arrays in the TERMTYPE
9230 struct so that applications which manipulate it must be recompiled.
9231 + use macros typeMalloc, typeCalloc and typeRealloc consistently
9232 throughout ncurses library.
9233 + add _nc_strdup() to doalloc.c.
9234 + modify define_key() to allow multiple strings to be bound to the
9236 + correct logic error in _nc_remove_string, from 990220.
9237 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
9238 + regenerate some of the html documentation
9239 + minor cleanup in terminal_interface-curses.adb
9242 + resolve ambiguity of kend/kll/kslt and khome/kfnd/kich1 strings in
9243 xterm and ncsa terminfo entries by removing the unneeded ones. Note
9244 that some entries will return kend & khome versus kslt and kfnd, for
9245 PC-style keyboards versus strict vt220 compatiblity - TD
9246 + add function keybound(), which returns the definition associated with
9248 + modify define_key() to undefine the given string when no keycode is
9250 + modify keyok() so it works properly if there is more than one string
9251 defined for a keycode.
9252 + add check to tic to warn about terminfo descriptions that contain
9253 more than one key assigned to the same string. This is shown only if
9254 the verbose (-v) option is given. Moved related logic (tic -v) from
9255 comp_parse.c into the tic program.
9256 + add/use _nc_trace_tries() to show the function keys that will be
9258 + rename init_acs to _nc_init_acs (request by Alexander V Lukyanov).
9259 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
9260 + remove all the *_adabind.c from ncurses, menu and form projects.
9261 Those little helper routines have all been implemented in Ada and are
9263 + The option handling routines in menu and form have been made more
9264 save. They now make sure that the unused bits in options are always
9266 + modify configuration scripts to
9267 + use gnatmake as default compiler name. This is a safer choice than
9268 gcc, because some GNAT implementations use other names for the
9269 compilerdriver to avoid conflicts.
9270 + use new default installation locations for the Ada files according
9271 to the proposed GNU Ada filesystem standard (for Linux).
9272 + simplify the Makefiles for the Ada binding
9273 + rename ada_include directory to src.
9276 + enable sigwinch handler by default.
9277 + disable logic that allows setbuf to be turned off/on, because some
9278 implementations will overrun the buffer after it has been disabled
9282 + suppress sc/rc capabilities from terminal description if they appear
9283 in smcup/rmcup. This affects only scrolling optimization, to fix a
9284 problem reported by several people with xterm's alternate screen,
9285 though the problem is more general.
9286 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
9287 + removed all pragma Preelaborate() stuff, because the just released
9288 gnat-3.11p complains on some constructs.
9289 + fixed some upper/lower case notations because gnat-3.11p found
9291 + used a new method to generate the HTML documentation of the Ada95
9292 binding. This invalidates nearly the whole ./Ada95/html subtree.
9293 Nearly all current files in this subtree are removed
9296 + cache last result from _nc_baudrate, for performance (suggested by
9297 Alexander V Lukyanov).
9298 + modify ClrUpdate() function to workaround a problem in nvi, which
9299 uses redrawwin in SIGTSTP handling. Jeffrey C Honig reported that
9300 ncurses repainted the screen with nulls before resuming normal
9301 operation (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
9302 + generalize is_xterm() function a little by letting xterm/rxvt/kterm
9303 be any substring rather than the prefix.
9304 + modify lib_data.c to initialize SP. Some linkers, e.g., IBM's, will
9305 not link a module if the only symbols exported from the module are
9306 uninitialized ones (patch by Ilya Zakharevich). Ilya says that he
9307 has seen messages claiming this behavior conforms to the standard.)
9308 + move call on _nc_signal_handler past _nc_initscr, to avoid a small
9309 window where Nttyb hasn't yet been filled (reported by Klaus Weide).
9310 + modify lib_tstp.c to block SIGTTOU when handling SIGTSTP, fixes a
9311 problem where ncurses applications which were run via a shell script
9312 would hang when given a ^Z. Also, check if the terminal's process
9313 group is consistent, i.e., a shell has not taken ownership of it,
9314 before deciding to save the current terminal settings in the SIGTSTP
9315 handler (patch by Klaus Weide).
9316 + correct spelling of ACS_ names in curs_border.3x (reported by Bob van
9317 der Poel <bvdpoel@kootenay.com>).
9318 + correct a couple of typos in the macros supporting the configure
9319 --with-shlib-version option.
9322 + modify fty_regex.c to compile on HAVE_REGEXPR_H_FUNCS machine (patch
9323 by Kimio Ishii <ishii@csl.sony.co.jp>).
9324 + rename BSDI console terminfo entries: bsdos to bsdos-pc-nobold, and
9325 bsdos-bold to bsdos-pc (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
9326 + modify tput to accept termcap names as an alternative to terminfo
9327 names (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
9328 + correct a typo in term.7 (Todd C Miller).
9329 + add configure --with-shlib-version option to allow installing shared
9330 libraries named according to release or ABI versions. This
9331 parameterizes some existing logic in the configure script, and is
9332 intended for compatiblity upgrades on Digital Unix, which used
9333 versioned libraries in ncurses 4.2, but no longer does (cf: 980425).
9334 + resync configure script against autoconf 2.13 + patches
9335 + minor improvements for teraterm terminfo entry based on the program's
9336 source distribution.
9339 + change default for configure --enable-big-core to assume machines do
9340 have enough memory to resolve terminfo.src in-memory.
9341 + correct name of ncurses library in TEST_ARGS when configuring with
9343 + minor fixes to compile ncurses library with broken-linker with g++.
9344 + add --enable-broken-linker configure option, default to environment
9345 variable $BROKEN_LINKER (request by Jeffrey C Honig).
9346 + change key_names[] array to static since it is not part of the curses
9347 interface (reported by Jeffrey C Honig <jch@bsdi.com>).
9350 + add Tera Term terminfo entry - TD
9353 + reviewed/corrected macros in curses.h as per XSI document.
9354 + provide support for termcap PC variable by copying it from terminfo
9355 data and using it as the padding character in tputs (reported by
9356 Alexander V Lukyanov).
9357 + corrected iris-ansi and iris-ansi-ap terminfo entries for kent and
9358 kf9-kf12 capabilities, as well as adding kcbt.
9359 + document the mouse handling mechanism in menu_driver and make a small
9360 change in menu_driver's return codes to provide more consistency
9361 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9362 + add fallback definition for NCURSES_CONST to termcap.h.in (reported
9363 by Uchiyama Yasushi <uch@nop.or.jp>).
9364 + move lib_restart.c to ncurses/base, since it uses curses functions
9365 directly, and therefore cannot be used in libtinfo.so
9366 + rename micro_char_size to micro_col_size, adding #define to retain
9368 + add set_a_attributes and set_pglen_inch to terminfo structure, as per
9369 XSI and Solaris 2.5.
9370 + minor makefile files to build ncurses test_progs
9371 + update html files in misc directory to reflect changes since 4.2
9374 + disable scroll hints when hashmap is enabled (patch by Alexander
9376 + move logic for tic's verify of -e option versus -I and -C so that the
9377 terminfo data is not processed if we cannot handle -e (reported by
9378 Steven Schwartz <steves@unitrends.com>.
9379 + add test-driver traces to terminfo and termcap functions.
9380 + provide support for termcap ospeed variable by copying it from the
9381 internal cur_term member, and using ospeed as the baudrate reference
9382 for the delay_output and tputs functions. If an application does not
9383 set ospeed, the library behaves as before, except that _nc_timed_wait
9384 is no longer used, or needed, since ospeed always has a value. But
9385 the application can modify ospeed to adjust the output of padding
9386 characters (prompted by a bug report for screen 3.7.6 and email from
9387 Michael Schroeder <Michael.Schroeder@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>).
9388 + removed some unused ifdef's as part of Alexander's restructuring.
9389 + reviewed/updated curses.h, term.h against X/Open Curses Issue 4
9390 Version 2. This includes making some parameters NCURSES_CONST
9391 rather than const, e.g., in termcap.h.
9392 + change linux terminfo entry to use ncv#2, since underline does not
9396 + miscellaneous corrections for curses.h to match XSI.
9397 + change --enable-no-padding configure option to be normally enabled.
9398 + add section to ncurses manpage for environment variables.
9399 + investigated Debian bug report that pertains to screen 3.7.4/3.7.6
9400 changes, found no sign of problems on Linux (or on SunOS, Solaris)
9401 running screen built with ncurses.
9402 + check if tmp_fp is opened in tic.c before closing it (patch by Pavel
9403 Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>).
9404 + correct several font specification typos in man-pages.
9407 + correct default value for BUILD_CC (reported by Larry Virden).
9410 + modify _nc_set_writedir() to set a flag in _nc_tic_dir() to prevent
9411 it from changing the terminfo directory after chdir'ing to it.
9412 Otherwise, a relative path in $TERMINFO would confuse tic (prompted
9413 by a Debian bug report).
9414 + correct/update ncsa terminfo entry (report by Larry Virden).
9415 + update xterm-xfree86 terminfo to current (patch 90), smcur/rmcur
9417 + add Mathew Vernon's mach console entries to terminfo.src
9418 + more changes, moving functions, as part of Alexander's restructuring.
9419 + modify configure script for GNU/Hurd share-library support, introduce
9420 BUILD_CC variable for cross compiling (patch by Uchiyama Yasushi
9424 + add environment variable NCURSES_NO_SETBUF to allow disabling the
9425 setbuf feature, for testing purposes.
9426 + correct ifdef's for termcap.h versus term.h that suppress redundant
9427 declarations of prototypes (reported by H.J.Lu).
9428 + modify Makefile.os2 to add linker flags which allow multiple copies
9429 of an application to coexist (reported by Ilya Zakharevich).
9430 + update Makefile.glibc and associated configure script so that ncurses
9431 builds as a glibc add-on with the new directory configuration
9432 (reported by H.J.Lu).
9435 + modify gen_reps() function in gen.c to work properly on SunOS
9436 (sparc), which is a left-to-right architecture.
9437 + modify relative_move and tputs to avoid an interaction with the
9438 BSD-style padding. The relative_move function could produce a string
9439 to replace on the screen which began with a numeric character, which
9440 was then interpreted by tputs as padding. Now relative_move will not
9441 generate a string with a leading digit in that case (overwrite).
9442 Also, tputs will only interpret padding if the string begins with a
9443 digit; as coded it permitted a string to begin with a decimal point
9444 or asterisk (reported by Larry Virden).
9445 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
9446 + fix a typo in m_driver.c mouse handling and improves the error
9448 + fix broken mouse handling in the Ada95 binding
9449 + make the Ada95 sample application menus work with the new menu mouse
9451 + improve the mouse handling introduced by Ilya; it now handles menus
9453 + repair a minor bug in the menu_driver code discovered during this
9455 + add new function wmouse_trafo() to hide implementation details of
9456 _yoffset member of WINDOW struct needed for mouse coordinate
9460 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to avoid using return-value of sprintf, since
9461 some older implementations (e.g., SunOS 4.x) return the buffer
9462 address rather than its length.
9463 > patch by Rick Ohnemus:
9464 + modify demo.cc to get it to compile with newer versions of egcs.
9465 + trim a space that appears at the end of the table preprocessor lines
9466 ('\" t). This space prevents some versions of man from displaying
9467 the pages - changed to remove all trailing whitespace (TD)
9468 + finally, 'make clean' does not remove panel objects.
9469 > patches by Ilya Zakharevich:
9470 + allow remapping of OS/2 mouse buttons using environment variable
9471 MOUSE_BUTTONS_123 with the default value 132.
9472 + add mouse support to ncurses menus.
9475 + modify misc/makedef.cmd to report old-style .def file symbols, and to
9476 generate the .def files sorted by increasing names rather than the
9478 + add misc/*.ref which are J.J.G.Ripoll's dll definition files (renamed
9479 from misc/*.old), and updated based on the entrypoint coding he used
9480 for an older version of ncurses.
9481 + add README.emx, to document how to build on OS/2 EMX.
9482 + updates for config.guess, config.sub from Lynx
9483 > patches by Ilya Zakharevich:
9484 + minor fixes for mouse handling mode:
9485 a) Do not initialize mouse if the request is to have no mouse;
9486 b) Allow switching of OS/2 VIO mouse on and off.
9487 + modify Makefile.os2 to support alternative means of generating
9488 configure script, by translating Unix script with Perl.
9489 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
9490 + Updates MANIFEST to reflect changes in source structure
9491 + Eliminates a problem introduced with my last patch for the C++
9492 binding in the panels code. It removes the update() call done in the
9494 + Changes in the Ada95 binding to better support systems where
9495 sizeof(chtype)!=sizeof(int) (e.g. DEC Alpha).
9498 + modify install-script for manpages to skip over .orig and .rej files
9499 (request by Larry Virden).
9500 > patches/discussion by Alexander V Lukyanov:
9501 + move base-library sources into ncurses/base and tty (serial terminal)
9502 sources into ncurses/tty, as part of Alexander V Lukyanov's proposed
9503 changes to ncurses library.
9504 + copy _tracemouse() into ncurses.c so that lib_tracemse.c need not
9505 be linked into the normal ncurses library.
9506 + move macro winch to a function, to hide details of struct ldat
9507 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
9508 + fix a potential compile problem in cursesw.cc
9509 + some Ada95 cosmetics
9510 + fix a gen.c problem when compiling on 64-Bit machines
9511 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in "-L" linker switch
9512 + modify Ada95 makefiles to use the INSTALL_PREFIX setting.
9515 + ifdef'd out lib_freeall.c when not configured.
9516 + rename _tracebits() to _nc_tracebits().
9517 + move terminfo-library sources into ncurses/tinfo, and trace-support
9518 functions into ncurses/trace as part of Alexander V Lukyanov's
9519 proposed changes to ncurses library.
9520 + modify generated term.h to always specify its own definitions for
9521 HAVE_TERMIOS_H, etc., to guard against inclusion by programs with
9522 broken configure scripts.
9525 + modify terminfo parsing to accept octal and hexadecimal constants,
9527 + remove an autoconf 2.10 artifact from the configure script's check
9528 for "-g" compiler options. (Though harmless, this confused someone
9529 at Debian, who recently issued a patch that results in the opposite
9531 + add configure option --with-ada-compiler to accommodate installations
9532 that do not use gcc as the driver for GNAT (patch by Juergen
9536 + ensure ./man exists in configure script, needed when configuring
9537 with --srcdir option.
9538 + modify infocmp "-r" option to remove limit on formatted termcap
9539 output, which makes it more like Solaris' version.
9540 + modify captoinfo to treat no-argument case more like Solaris'
9541 version, which uses the contents of $TERMCAP as the entry to format.
9542 + modify mk-2nd.awk to handle subdirectories, e.g., ncurses/tty
9543 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
9546 + modify --with-terminfo-dirs option so that the default value is the
9547 ${datadir} value, unless $TERMINFO_DIRS is already set. This gets
9548 rid of a hardcoded list of candidate directories in the configure
9550 + add some error-checking to _nc_read_file_entry() to ensure that
9551 strings are properly terminated (Todd C Miller).
9552 + rename manpage file curs_scr_dmp.3x to curs_scr_dump.3x, to
9553 correspond with contents (reported by Neil Zanella
9554 <nzanella@cs.mun.ca>).
9555 + remove redundant configure check for C++ which did not work when $CXX
9556 was specified with a full pathname (reported by Andreas Jaeger).
9557 + corrected bcopy/memmove check; the macro was not standalone.
9560 + remove unnecessary portion of OS/2 EMX mouse change from
9561 check_pending() (reported by Alexander V Lukyanov).
9564 + implement mouse support for OS/2 EMX (adapted from patch against
9565 4.2(?) by Ilya Zakharevich).
9566 + add configure-check for bcopy/memmove, for 980919 changes to hashmap.
9567 + merge Data General terminfo from Hasufin <hasufin@vidnet.net> - TD
9568 + merge AIX 3.2.5 terminfo descriptions for IBM terminals, replaces
9569 some older entries - TD
9570 + modify tic to compile into %'char' form in preference to %{number},
9571 since that is a little more efficient.
9572 + minor correction to infocmp to avoid displaying "difference" between
9573 two capabilities that are rendered in equivalent forms.
9574 + add "-g" option to tic/infocmp to force character constants to be
9575 displayed in quoted form. Otherwise their decimal values are shown.
9576 + modify setupterm so that cancelled strings are treated the same as
9577 absent strings, cancelled and absent booleans false (does not affect
9579 + modify tic, infocmp to discard redundant i3, r3 strings when output
9581 > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
9582 + improve performance of tparm, now it takes 19% instead of 25% when
9584 + rename maxlen/minlen to prec/width for better readability.
9585 + use format string for printing strings.
9586 + use len argument correctly in save_text, and pass it to save_number.
9589 + make test_progs compile (but hashmap does not function).
9590 + correct NC_BUFFERED macro, used in lib_mvcur test-driver, modify
9591 associated logic to avoid freeing the SP->_setbuf data.
9592 + add modules home_terminfo and getenv_num to libtinfo.
9593 + move write_entry to libtinfo, to work with termcap caching.
9594 + minor fixes to blue.c to build with atac.
9595 + remove softscroll.c module; no longer needed for testing.
9596 > patches by Todd C Miller:
9597 + use strtol(3) instead of atoi(3) when parsing env variables so we can
9598 detect a bogus (non-numeric) value.
9599 + check for terminal names > MAX_NAME_SIZE in a few more places when
9600 dealing with env variables again.
9601 + fix a MAX_NAME_SIZE that should be MAX_NAME_SIZE+1
9602 + use sizeof instead of strlen(3) on PRIVATE_INFO since it is a fixed
9603 string #define (compile time vs runtime).
9604 + when setting errno to ENOMEM, set it right before the return, not
9605 before code that could, possibly, set errno to a different value.
9606 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
9607 + use default background in update_cost_from_blank()
9608 + disable scroll-hints when hashmap is configured.
9609 + improve integration of hashmap scrolling code, by adding oldhash and
9610 newhash data to SP struct.
9611 + invoke del_curterm from delscreen.
9612 + modify del_curterm to set cur_term to null if it matches the
9613 function's parameter which is deleted.
9614 + modify lib_doupdate to prefer parm_ich to the enter_insert_mode and
9615 exit_insert_mode combination, adjusting InsCharCost to check
9616 enter_insert_mode, exit_insert_mode and insert_padding. Add
9617 insert_padding in insert mode after each char. This adds new costs
9621 + modify test-driver in lib_mvcur.s to use _nc_setbuffer, for
9622 consistent treatment.
9623 + modify ncurses to restore output to unbuffered on endwin, and resume
9624 buffering in refresh (see lib_set_term.c and NC_BUFFERED macro).
9625 + corrected HTML version numbers (according to the W3C validator, they
9626 never were HTML 2.0-compliant, but are acceptable 3.0).
9629 + modify MKterminfo.sh to generate terminfo.5 with tables sorted by
9630 capability name, as in SVr4.
9631 + modified term.h, termcap.h headers to avoid redundant declarations.
9632 + change 'u_int' type in tset.c to unsigned, making this compile on
9633 Sequent PRX 4.1 (reported by Michael Sterrett <msterret@coat.com>).
9636 + corrections to mailing addresses, and moving the magic line that
9637 causes the man program to invoke tbl to the first line of each
9638 manpage (patch by Rick Ohnemus <rick@ecompcon.com>).
9639 + add Makefile.os2 and supporting scripts to generate dll's on OS/2 EMX
9640 (from J.J.G.Ripoll, with further integration by TD).
9641 + correct a typo in icl6404 terminfo entry.
9642 + add xtermm and xtermc terminfo entries.
9643 > from esr's terminfo version:
9644 + Added Francesco Potorti's tuned Wyse 99 entries.
9645 + dtterm enacs (from Alexander V Lukyanov).
9646 + Add ncsa-ns, ncsa-m-ns and ncsa-m entries from esr version.
9649 + document AT&T acs characters in terminfo.5 manpage.
9650 + use EMX _scrsize() function if terminfo and environment do not
9651 declare the screen size (reported by Ilya Zakharevich
9652 <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>).
9653 + remove spurious '\' characters from eterm and osborne terminfo
9654 entries (prompted by an old Debian bug report).
9655 + correct reversed malloc/realloc calls in _nc_doalloc (reported by
9656 Hans-Joachim Widmaier <hjwidmai@foxboro.com>).
9657 + correct misplaced parenthesis which caused file-descriptor from
9658 opening termcap to be lost, from 980725 changes (reported by Andreas
9662 + modify lib_setup.c to eliminate unneeded include of <sys/ioctl.h>
9663 when termios is not used (patch by Todd C Miller).
9664 + add function _nc_doalloc, to ensure that failed realloc calls do not
9665 leak memory (reported by Todd C Miller).
9666 + improved ncsa-telnet terminfo entry.
9669 + correct missing braces around a trace statement in read_entry.c,
9670 from 980808 (reported by Kim DeVaughn <kimdv@best.com> and Liviu
9674 + fix missing include <errno.h> in ditto.c (reported by Bernhard
9675 Rosenkraenzer <bero@k5.sucks.eu.org>)
9676 + add NCSA telnet terminfo entries from Francesco Potorti
9677 <F.Potorti@cnuce.cnr.it>, from Debian bug reports.
9678 + make handling of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables more compatible with
9679 Solaris by allowing them to individually override the window size
9680 as obtained via ioctl.
9683 + modify lib_vidattr.c to allow for terminal types (e.g., xterm-color)
9684 which may reset all attributes in the 'op' capability, so that colors
9685 are set before turning on bold and other attributes, but still after
9686 turning attributes off.
9687 + add 'ditto.c' to test directory to illustrate use of newterm for
9688 initializing multiple screens.
9689 + modify _nc_write_entry() to recover from failed attempt to link alias
9690 for a terminfo on a filesystem which does not preserve character case
9691 (reported by Peter L Jordan <PJordan@chla.usc.edu>).
9694 + updated versions of config.guess and config.sub based on automake 1.3
9695 + change name-comparisons in lib_termcap to compare no more than 2
9696 characters (gleaned from Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8, verified
9697 with Solaris curses).
9698 + fix typo in curs_insstr.3x (patch by Todd C Miller)
9699 + use 'access()' to check if ncurses library should be permitted to
9700 open or modify files with fopen/open/link/unlink/remove calls, in
9701 case the calling application is running in setuid mode (request by
9702 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>, responding to Duncan Simpson
9703 <dps@io.stargate.co.uk>).
9704 + arm100 terminfo entries from Dave Millen <dmill@globalnet.co.uk>).
9705 + qnxt2 and minitel terminfo entries from esr's version.
9708 + use -R option with ldconfig on FreeBSD because otherwise it resets
9709 the search path to /usr/lib (reported by Dan Nelson).
9710 + add -soname option when building shared libraries on OpenBSD 2.x
9711 (request by QingLong).
9712 + add configure options --with-manpage-format and
9713 --with-manpage-renames (request by QingLong).
9714 + correct conversion of CANCELLED_NUMERIC in write_object(), which was
9715 omitting the high-order byte, producing a 254 in the compiled
9717 + modify return-values of tgetflag, tgetnum, tgetstr, tigetflag,
9718 tigetnum and tigetstr to be compatible with Solaris (gleaned from
9719 Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8).
9720 + modify _nc_syserr_abort to abort only when compiled for debugging,
9721 otherwise simply exit with an error.
9724 + modify Ada95 'gen' program to use appropriate library suffix (e.g.,
9725 "_g" for a debug build).
9726 + update Ada95 'make clean' rule to include generics .ali files
9727 + add a configure test to ensure that if GNAT is found, that it can
9728 compile/link working Ada95 program.
9729 + flush output in beep and flash functions, fixing a problem with
9730 getstr (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov)
9731 + fix egcs 1.0.2 warning for etip.h (patch by Chris Johns).
9732 + correct ifdef/brace nesting in lib_sprintf.c (patch by Bernhard
9733 Rosenkraenzer <bero@Pool.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>).
9734 + correct typo in wattr_get macro from 980509 fixes (patch by Dan
9738 + merge changes from current XFree86 xterm terminfo descriptions.
9739 + add configure option '--without-ada'.
9740 + add a smart-default for termcap 'ac' to terminfo 'acs_chars' which
9741 corresponds to vt100.
9742 + change translation for termcap 'rs' to terminfo 'rs2', which is
9743 the documented equivalent, rather than 'rs1'.
9746 + slow 'worm' down a little, for very fast machines.
9747 + corrected firstchar/lastchar computation in lib_hline.c
9748 + simplify some expressions with CHANGED_CELL, CHANGED_RANGE and
9749 CHANGED_TO_EOL macros.
9750 + modify init_pair so that if a color-pair is reinitialized, we will
9751 repaint the areas of the screen whose color changes, like SVr4 curses
9752 (reported by Christian Maurer <maurer@inf.fu-berlin.de>).
9753 + modify getsyx/setsyx macros to comply with SVr4 man-page which
9754 says that leaveok() affects their behavior (report by Darryl Miles,
9755 patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
9758 + review terminfo.5 against Solaris 2.6 curses version, corrected
9759 several minor errors/omissions.
9760 + implement tparm %l format.
9761 + implement tparm printf-style width and precision for %s, %d, %x, %o
9763 + implement tparm dynamic variables (reported by Xiaodan Tang).
9766 + update man-page for for wattr_set, wattr_get (cf: 980509)
9767 + correct limits in hashtest, which would cause nonprinting characters
9768 to be written to large screens.
9769 + correct configure script, when --without-cxx was specified: the
9770 wrong variable was used for cf_cv_type_of_bool. Compilers up to gcc
9771 2.8 tolerated the missing 'int'.
9772 + remove the hardcoded name "gcc" for the GNU Ada compiler. The
9773 compiler's name might be something like "egcs" (patch by Juergen
9775 + correct curs_addch.3x, which implied that echochar could directly
9776 display control characters (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
9777 + fix typos in ncurses-intro.html (patch by Sidik Isani
9778 <isani@cfht.hawaii.edu>)
9781 + add configure test for conflicting use of exception in math.h and
9783 + minor optimization to 'hash()' function in hashmap.c, reduces its
9785 + correct form of LD_SHARED_OPTS for HP-UX 10.x (patch by Tim Mooney).
9786 + fix missing quotes for 'print' in MKunctrl.awk script (reported by
9787 Mihai Budiu <mihaib@gs41.sp.cs.cmu.edu>).
9788 > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
9789 + correct problem on Solaris (with poll() function) where getch could
9790 hang indefinitely even if timeout(x) was called. This turned out to
9791 be because milliseconds was not updated before 'goto retry' in
9793 + simplified the function _nc_timed_wait and fixed another bug, which
9794 was the assumption of !GOOD_SELECT && HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY in *timeleft
9796 + removed the cycle on EINTR, as it seems to be useless.
9799 + add makefile-rule for test/keynames
9800 + modify run_tic.sh and shlib to ensure that user's .profile does not
9801 override the $PATH used to run tic (patch by Tim Mooney).
9802 + restore LD_SHARED_OPTS to $(LD_SHARED_FLAGS) when linking programs,
9803 needed for HP-UX shared-library path (recommended by Tim Mooney).
9804 + remove special case of HP-UX -L options, use +b options to embed
9805 $(libdir) in the shared libraries (recommended by Tim Mooney).
9806 + add checks for some possible buffer overflows and unchecked
9807 malloc/realloc/calloc/strdup return values (patch by Todd C Miller
9808 <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>)
9811 + correct maxx/maxy expression for num_columns/num_lines in derwin
9812 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
9813 + add /usr/share/lib/terminfo and /usr/lib/terminfo as compatibilty
9814 fallbacks to _nc_read_entry(), along with --with-terminfo-dirs
9815 configure option (suggested by Mike Hopkirk).
9816 + modify config.guess to recognize Unixware 2.1 and 7 (patch by Mike
9817 Hopkirk <hops@sco.com>).
9818 + suppress definition of CC_SHARED_OPTS in LDFLAGS_SHARED in c++
9819 Makefile.in, since this conflicts when g++ is used with HP-UX
9820 compiler (reported by Tim Mooney).
9821 + parenthesize 'strcpy' calls in c++ binding to workaround redefinition
9822 in some C++ implementations (reported by several people running
9823 egcs with glibc 2.0.93, analysis by Andreas Jaeger.
9826 + modify write_entry.c so that it will not attempt to link aliases
9827 with embedded '/', but give only a warning.
9828 + put -L$(libdir) first when linking programs, except for HP-UX.
9829 + modify comp_scan.c to handle SVr4 terminfo description for att477,
9830 which contains a colon in the description field.
9831 + modify configure script to support SCO osr5.0.5 shared libraries,
9832 from comp.unix.sco.programmer newsgroup item (Mike Hopkirk).
9833 + eliminate extra GoTo call in lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V.
9835 + minor adjustments of const/NCURSES_CONST from IRIX compile.
9836 + add updates based on esr's 980509 version of terminfo.src.
9839 + correct macros for wattr_set, wattr_get, separate wattrset macro from
9840 these to preserve behavior that allows attributes to be combined with
9842 + add configure option --enable-no-padding, to allow environment
9843 variable $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to eliminate non-mandatory padding,
9844 thereby making terminal emulators (e.g., for vt100) a little more
9845 efficient (request by Daniel Eisenbud <eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu>).
9846 + modify configure script to embed ABI in shared libraries for HP-UX
9847 10.x (detailed request by Tim Mooney).
9848 + add test/example of the 'filter()' function.
9849 + add nxterm and xterm-color terminfo description (request by Cristian
9850 Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>).
9851 + modify rxvt terminfo description to clear alternate screen before
9852 switching back to normal screen, for compatibility with applications
9853 which use xterm (reported by Manoj Kasichainula <manojk@io.com>).
9854 + modify linux terminfo description to reset color palette (reported
9855 by Telford Tendys <telford@eng.uts.edu.au>).
9856 + correction to doupdate, for case where terminal does not support
9857 insert/delete character. The logic did not check that there was a
9858 difference in alignment of changes to old/new screens before
9859 repainting the whole non-blank portion of the line. Modified to fall
9860 through into logic that reduces by the portion which does not differ
9861 (reported by Daniel Eisenbud <eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu>).
9862 + minor performance improvement to wnoutrefresh by moving some
9863 comparisons out of inner loop.
9866 + modify configure script to substitute NCURSES_CONST in curses.h
9867 + updated terminfo entries for xterm-xf86-v40, xterm-16color,
9868 xterm-8bit to correspond to XFree86 3.9Ag.
9869 + remove restriction that forces ncurses to use setaf/setab if the
9870 number of colors is greater than 8. (see 970524 for xterm-16color).
9871 + change order of -L options (so that $(libdir) is searched first) when
9872 linking tic and other programs, to workaround HP's linker.
9873 Otherwise, the -L../lib is embedded when linking against shared
9874 libraries and the installed program does not run (reported by Ralf
9876 + modify configuration of shared libraries on Digital Unix so that
9877 versioning is embedded in the library, rather than implied by
9878 links (patch by Tim Mooney).
9881 + modify etip.h to avoid conflict with math.h on HP-UX 9.03 with gcc
9882 2.8.1 which redefines 'exception' (reported by Ralf Hildebrandt
9883 <R.Hildebrandt@tu-bs.de>).
9884 + correct configure tests in CF_SHARED_OPTS which used $CC value to
9885 check for gcc, rather than autoconf's $GCC value. This did not
9886 work properly if the full pathname of the compiler were given
9887 (reported by Michael Yount <yount@csf.Colorado.edu>).
9888 + revise check for compiler options to force ANSI mode since repeating
9889 an option such as -Aa causes HP's compiler to fail on its own headers
9890 (reported by Clint Olsen <olsenc@ichips.intel.com>).
9893 + ifdef'd has_key() and mcprint() as extended functions.
9894 + modified several prototypes to correspond with 1997 version of
9895 X/Open Curses (affects ABI since developers have used attr_get).
9896 + remove spurious trailing blanks in glibc addon-scripts (patch by
9898 + insert a few braces at locations where gcc-2.8.x asks to use them to
9899 avoid ambigous else's, use -fpic rather than -fPIC for Linux (patch
9900 by Juergen Pfeifer).
9903 + split SHLIB_LIST into SHLIB_DIRS/SHLIB_LIST to keep -L options
9904 before -l to accommodate Solaris' linker (reported by Larry Virden).
9907 + modify lib_color.c to eliminate dependency on orig_colors and
9908 orig_pair, since SVr4 curses does not require these either, but
9909 uses them when they are available.
9910 + add detailed usage-message to infocmp.
9911 + correct a typo in att6386 entry (a "%?" which was "?").
9912 + add -f option to infocmp and tic, which formats the terminfo
9913 if/then/else/endif so that they are readable (with newlines and
9915 + fixes for glibc addon scripts (patch by H.J.Lu).
9918 + revise configure macro CF_SPEED_TYPE so that termcap.h has speed_t
9919 declared (from Adam J Richter <adam@yggdrasil.com>)
9920 + remove spurious curs_set() call from leaveok() (J T Conklin).
9921 + corrected handling leaveok() in doupdate() (patch by Alexander V.
9923 + improved version of wredrawln (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9924 + correct c++/Makefile.in so install target do not have embedded ../lib
9925 to confuse it (patch by Thomas Graf <graf@essi.fr>).
9926 + add warning to preinstall rule which checks if the installer would
9927 overwrite a curses.h or termcap.h that is not derived from ncurses.
9928 (The recommended configuration for developers who need both is to
9929 use --disable-overwrite).
9930 + modify preinstall rule in top-level Makefile to avoid implicit
9931 use of 'sh', to accommodate Ultrix 4.4 (reported by Joao Palhoto
9932 Matos <jmatos@math.ist.utl.pt>, patch by Thomas Esser
9933 <te@informatik.uni-hannover.de>)
9934 + refine ifdef's for TRACE so that libncurses has fewer dependencies
9935 on libtinfo when TRACE is disabled.
9936 + modify configure script so that if the --with-termlib option is used
9937 to generate a separate terminfo library, we chain it to the ncurses
9938 library with a "-l" option (reported by Darryl Miles and Ian T.
9942 + correct limits and window in wredrawln function (reported/analysis by
9943 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9944 + correct sed expression in configure script for --with-fallback
9945 option (patch by Jesse Thilo).
9946 + correct some places in configure script where $enableval was used
9947 rather than $withval (patch by Darryl Miles <dlm@g7led.demon.co.uk>).
9948 + modify some man-pages so no '.' or '..' falls between TH and SH
9949 macros, to accommodate man_db program (reported by Ian T. Zimmerman
9951 + terminfo.src 10.2.1 downloaded from ESR's webpage (ESR).
9952 > several changes by Juergen Pfeifer:
9953 + add copyright notices (and rcs id's) on remaining man-pages.
9954 + corrected prototypes for slk_* functions, using chtype rather than
9956 + implemented the wcolor_set() and slk_color() functions
9957 + the slk_attr_{set,off,on} functions need an additional void*
9958 parameter according to XSI.
9959 + fix the C++ and Ada95 binding as well as the man pages to
9960 reflect above enhancements.
9963 + use 'stat()' rather than 'access()' in toe.c to check for the
9964 existence of $HOME/.terminfo, since it may be a file.
9965 + suppress configure CF_CXX_LIBRARY check if we are not using g++
9966 2.7.x, since this is not needed with g++ 2.8 or egcs (patch by
9968 + turn on hashmap scrolling code by default, intend to remedy defects
9970 + minor corrections to terminfo.src changelog.
9972 980302 4.2 release for upload to prep.ai.mit.edu
9973 + correct Florian's email address in ncurses-intro.html
9974 + terminfo.src 10.2.0 (ESR).
9977 + add linux-koi8r replace linux-koi8, which is not KOI8 (patch by
9978 QingLong <qinglong@Bolizm.ihep.su>).
9979 + minor documentation fixes (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9980 + add setlocale() call to ncurses.c (reported by Claes G. Lindblad
9981 <claesg@algonet.se>).
9982 + correct sign-extension in lib_insstr.c (reported by Sotiris
9983 Vassilopoulos <svas@leon.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr>)
9986 + regenerated some documentation overlooked in 980214 patch
9987 (ncurses-intro.doc, curs_outopts.3x.html)
9988 + minor ifdef change to C++ binding to work with gcc 2.8.0 (patch by
9990 + change maintainer's mailing address to florian@gnu.org, change
9991 tentative mailing list address to bug-ncurses-request@gnu.org (patch
9992 by Florian La Roche).
9993 + add definition of $(REL_VERSION) to c++/Makefile.in (reported by Gran
9994 Hasse <gh@raditex.se>).
9995 + restore version numbers to Ada95 binding, accidentally deleted by
9996 copyright patch (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9999 + remove ncurses.lsm from MANIFEST so that it won't be used in FSF
10000 distributions, though it is retained in development.
10001 + correct scaling of milliseconds to nanoseconds in lib_napms.c (patch
10003 + update mailing-list information (bug-ncurses@gnu.org).
10004 + update announcement for upcoming 4.2 release.
10005 + modify -lm test to check for 'sin()' rather than 'floor()'
10006 + remove spurious commas from terminfo.src descriptions.
10007 + change copyright notices to Free Software Foundation
10010 + minor fixes for autoconf macros CF_ERRNO, CF_HELP_MESSAGE and
10012 + modify Makefile.glibc so that $(objpfx) is defined (H.J.Lu).
10013 + ifdef-out true-return from _nc_mouse_inline() which depends on
10014 merge of QNX patch (pending 4.2 release).
10015 > patch to split off seldom-used modules in ncurses (J T Conklin):
10016 This reduces size by up to 2.6kb.
10017 + move functionality of _nc_usleep into napms, add configuration case
10019 + moved wchgat() from lib_addch.c to lib_chgat.c
10020 + moved clearok(), immedok(), leaveok(), and scrollok() from
10021 lib_options.c to lib_clearok.c, lib_immedok.c, lib_leaveok.c and
10023 + moved napms() from lib_kernel.c to lib_napms.c
10024 + moved echo() and noecho() from lib_raw.c to lib_echo.c
10025 + moved nl() and nonl() from lib_raw.c to lib_nl.c
10028 + corrected conversion in tclock.c (cf: 971018).
10029 + updates to Makefile.glibc and associated Linux configure script
10031 + workaround a quoting problem on SunOS with tar-copy.sh
10032 + correct init_pair() calls in worm.c to work when use_default_colors()
10034 + include <sys/types.h> in CF_SYS_TIME_SELECT to work with FreeBSD
10036 + add ncv capability to FreeBSD console (cons25w), making reverse
10038 + correct sense of configure-test for sys/time.h inclusion with
10040 + fixes for Ada95/ada_include/Makefile.in to work with --srcdir option.
10041 + remove unused/obsolete test-program rules from progs/Makefile.in
10042 (the rules in ncurses/Makefile.in work).
10043 + remove shared-library loader flags from test/Makefile.in, etc.
10044 + simplify test/configure.in using new version of autoconf to create
10046 + suppress suffix rules in test/Makefile.in, provide explicit
10047 dependency to work with --srcdir option and less capable 'make'
10049 > adapted from patch for QNX by Xiaodan Tang:
10050 + initialize %P and %g variables set/used in tparm, and also ensure
10051 that empty strings don't return a null result from tparam_internal
10052 + add QNX-specific prototype for vsscanf()
10053 + move initialization of SP->_keytry from init_keytry() to newterm() to
10054 avoid resetting it via a keyok() call by mouse_activate().
10055 + reorganized some functions in lib_mouse() to use case-statements.
10056 + remove sgr string from qnx terminfo entry since it is reported to
10057 turn off attributes inconsistently.
10060 + add f/F/b/B commands to ncurses 'b' test to toggle colors, providing
10061 test for no_color_video.
10062 + adjusted emx.src to use no_color_video, now works with ncurses 'b'
10064 + implement no_color_video attribute, and as a special case, reverse
10065 colors when the reverse attribute cannot be combined with color.
10066 + check for empty string in $TERM variable (reported by Brett Michaels
10067 <brett@xylan.com>).
10068 > from reports by Fred Fish:
10069 + add configure-test for isascii
10070 + add configure-test for -lm library.
10071 + modify CF_BOOL_SIZE to check if C++ bool types are unsigned.
10072 > patches by J.J.G.Ripoll
10073 + add configure/makefile variables to support .exe extension on
10074 OS/2 EMX (requires additional autoconf patches).
10075 + explicitly initialize variables in lib_data.c to appease OS/2 linker
10076 > patches by Fred Fish <fnf@ninemoons.com>
10077 + misc/Makefile.in (install.data): Avoid trying to install the CVS
10079 + aclocal.m4 (install.includes): Remove files in the include directory
10080 where we are going to install new ones, not the original source
10082 + misc/terminfo.src: Add entry for "beterm", derived from termcap
10083 distributed with BeOS PR2 using captoinfo.
10084 + aclocal.m4: Wrap $cf_cv_type_of_bool with quotes (contains space)
10085 + aclocal.m4: Assume bool types are unsigned.
10086 + progs/infocmp.c: workaround mwcc 32k function data limit
10089 + correct initialization of color-pair (cf: 970524) in xmas.c, which
10090 was using only one color-pair for all colors (reported by
10092 + add multithread options for objects build on EMX, for compatibility
10094 + split up an expression in MKlib_gen.sh to work around a problem on
10095 OS/2 EMX, with 'ash' (patch by J.J.G.Ripoll).
10096 + change terminfo entries xterm (xterm-xf86-v40), xterm-8bit rs1 to use
10098 + rename terminfo entry xterm-xf86-v39t to xterm-xf86-v40
10099 + remove bold/underline from sun console entries since they're not
10101 + correct _tracef calls in _tracedump(), which did not separate format
10103 + correct getopt string for tic "-o" option, and add it to man-page
10104 synopsis (reported by Darren Hiebert <darren@hmi.com>).
10105 + correct typo in panel/Makefile.in, reversed if-statement in scrolling
10106 optimization (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10107 + test for 'remove()', use 'unlink() if not found (patch by Philippe De
10108 Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>).
10109 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
10110 + Improve a feature of the forms driver. For invisible fields
10111 (O_VISIBLE off) only the contents but not the attributes are cleared.
10112 We now clear both. (Reported by Javier Kohan
10113 <jkohan@adan.fceia.unr.edu.ar>)
10114 + The man page form_field_opts.3x makes now clear, that invisible
10115 fields are also always inactive.
10116 + adjust ifdef's to compile the C++ binding with the just released
10117 gcc-2.8.0 c++ and the corresponding new C++ libraries.
10120 + correct "?" command in ncurses.c; it was performing non-screen writes
10121 while the program was in screen mode. (It "worked" in 1.9.9e because
10122 that version sets OPOST and OCRNL incorrectly).
10123 + return error from functions in lib_kernel, lib_raw and lib_ti if
10124 cur_term is null, or if underlying I/O fails.
10125 + amend change to tputs() so that it does not return an error if
10126 cur_term is null, since some applications depend on being able to use
10127 tputs without initializing the terminal (reported by Christian J.
10128 Robinson <infynity@cyberhighway.net>).
10131 + add a copy of emx.src from J.J.G.Ripoll's OS/2 EMX version of ncurses
10132 1.9.9e, together with fixes/additions for the "ansi" terminal type.
10133 + add tic check for save/restore cursor if change_scroll_region is
10134 defined (reference: O'Reilly book).
10135 + modify read_termcap.c to handle EMX-style pathnames (reported by
10137 + modify lib_raw.c to use EMX's setmode (patch from J.J.G.Ripoll).
10138 Ripoll says EMX's curses does this.
10139 + modify _nc_tic_expand() to generate \0 rather than \200.
10140 + move/revise 'expand()' from dump_entry.c to ncurses library as
10141 _nc_tic_expand(), for use by tack.
10142 + decode \a as \007 for terminfo, as per XSI.
10143 + correct translation of terminfo "^@", to \200, like \0.
10144 + modify next_char() to treat <cr><lf> the same as <newline>, for
10145 cross-platform compatibility.
10146 + use new version of autoconf (971230) to work around limited
10147 environment on CLIX, due to the way autoconf builds --help message.
10148 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
10149 + check that the Ada95 binding runs against the correct version of
10151 + insert constants about the library version into the main spec-file of
10155 + modify open/fopen calls to use binary mode, needed for EMX.
10156 + modify configure script to work with autoconf 2.10 mods for OS/2
10157 EMX (from J.J.G.Ripoll).
10158 + generated ncurses_cfg.h with patch (971222) to autoconf 2.12 which
10159 bypasses limited sed buffer length.
10160 > several changes from Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll <worm@arrakis.es>
10161 (J.J.G.Ripoll) to support OS/2 EMX:
10162 + add a _scrolling flag to SP, to set when we encounter a terminal
10163 that simply cannot scroll.
10164 + corrected logic in _nc_add_to_try(), by ensuring that strings with
10165 embedded \200 characters are matched.
10166 + don't assume the host has 'link()' function, for linking terminfo
10170 + if there's no ioctl's to support sigwinch handler, disable it.
10171 + add configure option --disable-ext-funcs to remove the extended
10172 functions from the build.
10173 + add configure option --with-termlib to generate the terminfo
10174 functions as a separate library.
10175 + add 'sources' rule to facilitate cross-compiling.
10176 + review/fix order of mostlyclean/clean/distclean rules.
10177 + modify install-rule for headers to first remove old header, in
10178 case there was a symbolic link that confuses the install script.
10179 + corrected substitution for NCURSES_CONST in term.h (cf: 971108)
10180 + add null pointer checks in wnoutrefresh(), overlap() (patch by
10181 Xiaodan Tang <xtang@qnx.com>)
10182 + correct tputs(), which could dereference a null cur_term if invoked
10183 before terminal is initialized (patch by Christopher Seawood
10185 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
10186 + makes better use of "pragma Inline" in the Ada95 binding
10187 + resynchronizes the generated html manpages
10190 + additional fixes for man-pages section-references
10191 + add (for debugging) a check for ich/ich1 conflict with smir/rmir
10193 + remove hpa/vpa from rxvt terminal description because they are not
10194 implemented correctly, added sgr0.
10195 + change ncurses 's' to use raw mode, so ^Q works (reported by Rudolf
10196 Leitgeb <leitgeb@leland.stanford.edu>)
10199 + modify protection when installing libraries to (normally) not
10200 executable. HP-UX shared libraries are an exception.
10201 + add configure check for 'tack'.
10202 + implement script for renaming section-references in man-page install,
10203 for Debian configuration.
10204 + add validity-check for SP in trace code in baudrate() (reported by
10206 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov (fixes to match sol25 curses)
10207 + modify 'overlay()' so that copy applies target window background to
10209 + correct 'mvwin()' so that it does not clear the previous locations.
10210 + correct lib_acs.c so that 8-bit character is not sign expanded in
10211 case of wide characters in chtype.
10212 + correct control-char test in lib_addch.c for use with wide chars
10213 + use attribute in the chtype when adding a control character in
10214 lib_addch.c control char was added with current attribute
10217 + save/restore errno in _tracef() function
10218 + change treatment of initialize_color to use a range of 0..1000
10219 (recommended by Daniel Weaver).
10220 + set umask in mkinstalldirs, fixing problems reported by users who
10221 have set root's umask to 077.
10222 + correct bug in tic that caused capabilities to be reprinted at the
10223 end of output when they had embedded comments.
10224 + rewrote wredrawln to correspond to XSI, and split-out since it is
10225 not often used (from report by Alexander V. Lukyanov, 970825)
10226 + rewrote Dan Nelson's change to make it portable, as well as to
10227 correct logic for handling backslashes.
10228 + add code to _nc_tgetent() to make it work more like a real tgetent().
10229 It removes all empty fields, and removes all but the first in a group
10230 of duplicate caps. The code was pulled from the BSD libtermcap code
10231 in termcap.c (patch by Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
10232 + don't include --enable-widec in the --with-develop configure option,
10233 since it is not binary-compatible with 4.1 (noted by Alexander V.
10235 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
10236 + further improvements of the usage of elaboration pragmas in the Ada95
10238 + enhanced Ada95 sample to use the user_data mechanism for panels.
10239 + a fix for the configuration script to make gnat-3.10 the required
10241 + resync of the html version of the manpages
10244 > fixes/updates for terminfo.src:
10245 + add vt220-js, pilot, rbcomm, datapoint entries from esr's 27-jun-97
10247 + add hds200 description (Walter Skorski)
10248 + add EMX 0.9b descriptions
10249 + correct rmso/smso capabilities in wy30-mc and wy50-mc (Daniel Weaver)
10250 + rename xhpterm back to hpterm.
10251 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
10252 + Improves the usage of elaboration pragmas for the Ada95 binding.
10253 + Adds a translation of the test/rain.c into Ada95 to the samples.
10254 This has been contributed to the project by Laurent Pautet
10258 + increase MAX_NAME_SIZE to 512 to handle extremely long alias list
10260 + correction & simplification of delay computation in tputs, based on
10261 comments from Daniel Weaver.
10262 + replace test for SCO with more precise header tests.
10263 + add configure test for unsigned literals, use in NCURSES_BITS macro.
10264 + comment-out the -PIC, etc., flags from c++, progs and test makefiles
10265 since they probably are not needed, and are less efficient (noted by
10267 + add -L$(libdir) to loader options, after -L../lib so that loaders
10268 that record this information will tend to do the right thing if
10269 the programs are moved around after installing them (suggested by
10271 + add -R option to loader options for programs for Solaris if the
10272 --enable-rpath option is specified for the libraries.
10275 + correct installed filename for shared libraries on *BSD (reported by
10279 + cleanup logic for deciding when tputs() should call delay_output(),
10280 based on comments from Daniel Weaver.
10281 + modified tputs() to avoid use of float.
10282 + correct use of trailpad in tputs(), which used the wrong variable
10283 in call to delay_output().
10284 + correct inverted expression for null-count in delay_output()
10285 (analysis by Daniel Weaver).
10286 + apply --enable-rpath option to Solaris (requested by Larry Virden).
10287 + correct substitution of EXTRA_CFLAGS for gcc 2.6.3
10288 + correct check for error-return by _nc_tgetent(), which returns 0
10290 + add configure test for BSD 4.4 cgetent() function, modify
10291 read_termcap.c to use the host's version of that if found, using the
10292 terminal database on FreeBSD (reported by Peter Wemm).
10293 + add u8, u9 strings to sun-il description for Daniel Weaver.
10294 + use NCURSES_CONST in panel's user-pointer.
10295 + modify edit_cfg.sh and MKterm.h.awk.in to substitute NCURSES_CONST
10296 so that will work on NeXT.
10297 + use _nc_set_screen() rather than assignments to SP to fix port to
10298 NeXT (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
10301 + force mandatory padding in bell and flash_screen, as specified in
10303 + don't allow padding_baud_rate to override mandatory delays (reported
10305 + modify delay_output() to use _nc_timed_wait() if no baudrate has been
10306 defined, or if the cur_term pointer is not initialized. XSI treats
10307 this as unspecified. (requested by Daniel Weaver).
10308 + change getcap-cache ifdef's to eliminate unnecessary chdir/mkdir
10309 when that feature is not configured.
10310 + remove _nc_err_abort() calls when write_entry.c finds a directory but
10311 cannot write to it, e.g., when translating part/all of /etc/termcap
10312 (reported by Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>).
10313 (this dates back to 951102 in 1.9.7a).
10314 + minor ifdef fixes to compile with atac and glibc 2.0.5c
10315 + add check for -lgen when configuring regexpr.h
10316 + modify Solaris shared-library option "-d y" to "-dy" to workaround
10317 incompatibility of gcc 2.7.2 vs vendor's tools.
10320 + correct ifdef's for struct winsize vs struct ttysize in lib_setup.c
10322 + remove dangling backslash in panel/Makefile.in
10323 + modify MKkeyname.awk to work with SCO's nawk, which dumps core in the
10325 + correct length of allocation in _nc_add_to_try(), to allow for
10327 + correct logic in _nc_remove_key(), which was discarding too many
10328 nodes (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov)
10331 + add definition for $(REL_VERSION) to test/Makefile.in, so *BSD
10332 shared libraries link properly (see 970524).
10333 + modify Linux shared-library generation to include library
10334 dependencies (e.g., -lncurses and -lgpm) in the forms, menu and
10335 panel libraries (suggested by Juergen Pfeifer).
10336 + modify configure script to use config.guess and config.sub rather
10337 than uname, which is unreliable on some systems.
10338 + updated Makefile.glibc, test-built with glibc 2.0.5c
10339 + modify keyname() to return values consistent with SVr4 curses (patch
10341 > changes requested by Daniel Weaver:
10342 + modify delay_output() so that it uses the same output function as
10343 tputs() if called from that function.
10344 + move _baudrate from SCREEN to TERMINAL so that low-level use of
10345 tputs works when SP is not set.
10346 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
10347 + factor lib_menu and lib_form into smaller modules
10348 + clean up the interface between panel and SCREEN
10349 + minor changes to the Ada95 mouse support implemenation
10350 + minor bugfix in C++ binding to ripoff windows
10351 + fix a few Ada95 html documentation pages
10354 + split-out lib_ungetch.c, make runtime link to resizeterm() to
10355 decouple those modules from lib_restart.c
10356 + add xterm-xf86-v39t description to terminfo.src
10357 + reset SP->_endwin in lib_tstp.c cleanup() function after calling
10358 endwin() to avoid unnecessary repainting if the application has
10359 established an atexit function, etc. Encountered this problem in
10360 the c++ demo, whose destructors repaint the screen.
10361 + combine _nc_get_screensize() and resizeterm() calls as new function
10362 _nc_update_screensize().
10363 + minor fixes to allow compile with g++ (suggested by Nelson H. F.
10365 + implement install-rules for Ada95 makefiles.
10366 + use screen_lines or MAXLINES as needed where LINES was coded,
10367 as well as screen_columns for COLS, in the ncurses library.
10368 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
10369 + modify logic for ripped-off lines to handle several SCREENs.
10370 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
10371 + factors lib_slk.c into some smaller modules
10372 + factors panel.c into some smaller modules
10373 + puts the static information about the current panel stack into the
10374 SCREEN structure to allow different panel stacks on different
10376 + preliminary fix for an error adjusting LINES to account for
10380 + move _nc_max_click_interval and other mouse interface items to SCREEN
10381 struct so that they are associated with a single terminal, and also
10382 save memory when the application does not need a mouse (roughly 3k vs
10384 + modify mouseinterval() so that a negative parameter queries the
10385 click-interval without modifying it.
10386 + modify ncurses 'i' test to work with ncurses' apparent extension from
10387 SVr4, i.e., allows nocbreak+noecho (analysis by Alexander V.
10389 + add configure options --with-ada-includes and --with-ada-objects,
10390 to drive Ada95 binding install (not yet implemented).
10391 + install C++ binding as -lncurses++ and associated headers with the
10392 other ncurses headers.
10393 + fix header uninstall if configure --srcdir is used.
10394 > minor interface changes to support 'tack' program -TD
10395 (request by Daniel Weaver <danw@znyx.com>).
10396 + export functions _nc_trans_string() and _nc_msec_cost().
10397 + add variable _nc_nulls_sent, to record the number of padding
10398 characters output in delay_output().
10399 + move tests for generic_type and hard_copy terminals in setupterm()
10400 to the end of that function so that the library will still be
10401 initialized, though not generally useful for curses programs.
10402 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
10403 + modify ClrBottom() to avoid using clr_eos if there is only one line
10405 + typo in configure --help.
10406 > patch by J T Conklin (with minor resync against Juergen's changes)
10407 + split-out lib_flash.c from lib_beep.c
10408 + split-out lib_hline.c and lib_vline.c from lib_box.c
10409 + split-out lib_wattron.c, lib_wattroff.c from lib_addch.c
10412 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
10413 + correct source/target of c++/edit_cfg.sh
10416 + add color, mouse support to kterm terminfo entry.
10417 + modify lib_mouse.c to recognize rxvt, kterm, color_xterm also as
10418 providing "xterm"-style mouse.
10419 + updated rxvt's terminfo description to correspond to 2.21b, with
10420 fixes for the acsc (the box1 capability is incorrect, ech1 does not
10422 + fix logic in parse_entry.c that discarded acsc when 'synthesizing'
10423 an entry from equivalents in XENIX or AIX. This lets ncurses handle
10424 the distribution copy of rxvt's terminfo.
10425 + modify acsc capability for linux and linux-koi8 terminfo descriptions
10426 (from Pavel Roskin <pavel@absolute.spb.su>).
10427 + corrected definition in curses.h for ACS_LANTERN, which was 'I'
10428 rather than 'i' (see 970802).
10429 + updated terminfo.src with reformatted acsc entries, and repaired the
10430 trashed entries with spurious '\' characters that this exposed.
10431 + add logic to dump_entry.c to reformat acsc entries into canonical
10432 form (sorted, unique mapping).
10433 + add configure script to generate c++/etip.h
10434 + add configure --with-develop option, to enable by default most of the
10435 experimental options (requested by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10436 + rename 'deinstall' to 'uninstall', following GNU convention
10437 (suggested by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10438 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
10439 + modify tactics 2 and 5 in onscreen_mvcur(), to allow them on the last
10440 line of the screen, since carriage return will not cause a newline.
10441 + remove clause from PutCharLR() that would try to use
10442 eat_newline_glitch since that apparently does not work on some
10443 terminals (e.g., M$ telnet).
10444 + correct a limit check in scroll_csr_backward()
10445 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
10446 + adds dummy implementations of methods above() and below() to the
10447 NCursesPanel class.
10448 + fixes missing returncode in NCursesWindow::ripoffline()
10449 + fixes missing returncode in TestApplication::run() in demo.cc
10450 + We should at least give a comment in etip.h why it is currently a
10451 problem to install the C++ binding somewhere
10452 + makes the WINDOW* argument of wenclose() a const.
10453 + modifies several of the routines in lib_adabind.c to use a const
10457 + add 'deinstall' rules.
10458 + use explicit assignments in configure --without-progs option to
10459 work around autoconf bug which doesn't always set $withval.
10460 + check for ldconfig, don't try to run it if not found.
10461 + implement simple/unoptimized case in lib_doupdate.c to handle
10462 display with magic cookie glitch, tested with ncurses.c program.
10463 + correct missing _tracef in getmouse(), to balance the returnCode
10465 + simplify show_attr() in ncurses.c using termattrs().
10466 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
10467 + provides missing inlines for mvw[hv]line in cursesw.h of the C++
10469 + fixes a typo in a comment of frm_driver.c
10470 + Enhances Ada95 Makefiles to fulfill the requirement of GNAT-3.10 that
10471 generics should be compiled. Proper fixes to the configuration
10472 scripts are also provided.
10475 + several modifications to the configure script (requested by Ward
10477 + add configure options --without-progs, to suppress the build of the
10478 utility programs, e.g., for cross-compiling.
10479 + add $(HOSTCCFLAGS) and $(HOSTLDFLAGS) symbols to ncurses
10480 Makefile.in, to simplify setup for cross compiling.
10481 + add logic in configure script to recognize "--target=vxworks", and
10482 generate load/install actions for VxWorks objects.
10483 + move typedef for sigaction_t into SigAction.h to work around problem
10484 generating lint library.
10485 + modify fty_regex.c to reflect renaming of ifdef's for regular
10487 + simplify ifdef in lib_setup.c for TIOCGWINSZ since that symbol may
10488 reside in <sys/ioctl.h>.
10489 + merge testcurs.c with version from PDCurses 2.3, clarifying some of
10490 the more obscure tests, which rely upon color.
10491 + use macros getbegyx() and getmaxyx() in newdemo.c and testcurs.c
10492 + modify ncurses.c to use getbegyx() and getmaxyx() macros to cover up
10493 implementation difference wrt SVr4 curses, allow 's' test to work.
10494 + add missing endwin() to testscanw.c program (reported by Fausto
10495 Saporito <fausap@itb.it>).
10496 + fixes/updates for Makefile.glibc and related files under sysdeps
10498 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
10499 + add checks for null pointers, especially WINDOW's throughout the
10501 + solve a problem with wrong calculation of panel overlapping (reported
10503 + make sure that a panel's window isn't a pad.
10504 + do more error checking in module lib_touch.c
10505 + missing files for Ada95 binding from the last patch
10506 + synch. of generated html pages (RCS-Id's were wrong in html files)
10507 + support for Key_Resize in Ada binding
10508 + changed documentation style in ./c++/cursesm.h
10509 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
10510 + undo attempt to do recursive inlining for PutChar(), noting that it
10511 did not improve timing measurably, but inflated the size of
10515 + modify rain.c to use color.
10516 + correct scroll_csr_backward() to match scroll_csr_forward().
10517 + minor adjustment to llib-lncurses, to work with Solaris 2.5.1
10518 + minor fixes to sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/configure to reflect renaming
10519 of configure cache variables in 970906.
10520 + correct logic involving changes to O_VISIBLE option in
10521 Synchronize_Options function in frm_driver.c (Tony Hoffmann
10522 <Tony.Hoffmann@hia.nrc.ca>)
10523 + add $(HOSTCC) symbol to ncurses Makefile.in, to simplify setup for
10524 cross compiling (suggested by Chris Johns).
10525 + modify ifdef in lib_setup.c to only include <sys/ioctl.h> if we can
10526 use it to support screen-size calculation (reported by Chris Johns).
10527 + #undef unctrl to avoid symbol conflict in port to RTEMS (reported by
10528 Chris Johns <cjohns@plessey.com.au>)
10529 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
10530 + simplified, made minor corrections to Ada95 binding to form
10532 + The C++ binding has been enhanced:
10533 + Improve NCursesWindow class: added additional methods to cover
10534 more ncurses functionality. Make refresh() and noutrefresh()
10535 virtual members to allow different implementation in the
10536 NCursesPanel class.
10537 + CAUTION: changed order of parameters in vline() and hline() of
10538 NCursesWindow class.
10539 + Make refresh() in NCursesPanel non-static, it is now a
10540 reimplementation of refresh() in the base class. Added
10541 noutrefresh() to NCursesPanel.
10542 + Added NCursesForm and related classes to support libform
10544 + Moved most of configuration related stuff from cursesw.h to etip.h
10545 + Added NCursesApplication class to support easy configuration of
10546 menu and forms related attributes as well as ripped of title lines
10547 and Soft-Label-Keys for an application.
10548 + Support of Auto-Cleanup for a menu's fieldlist.
10549 + Change of return type for current_item() and operator[] for menus.
10551 + Fixed a bug in form/fld_def.c: take into account that copyarg and
10552 freearg for a fieldtype may be NULL, makearg must not be NULL
10553 + Fixed a bug in form/fld_type.c: in set_fieldtype_arg() makearg must
10554 not be NULL, copyarg and freearg may be NULL.
10555 + Fixed a bug in form/frm_def.c: Allow Disconnect_Fields() if it is
10556 already disconnected.
10557 + Enhance form/frm_driver.c: Allow growth of dynamic fields also on
10558 navigation requests.
10559 + Fixed a bug in form/fty_enum.c: wrong position of postincrement in
10560 case-insensitiva comparision routine.
10561 + Enhanced form/lib_adabind.c with function _nc_get_field() to get a
10562 forms field by index.
10563 + Enhanced menu/m_adabind.c with function _nc_get_item() to get a menus
10565 + Fixed in curses.h.in: make chtype argument for pechochar() constant.
10566 Mark wbkgdset() as implemented, remove wbkgdset macro, because it was
10567 broken (didn't handle colors correctly).
10568 + Enhanced lib_mouse.c: added _nc_has_mouse() function
10569 + Added _nc_has_mouse() prototype to curses.priv.h
10570 + Modified lib_bkgd.c: hopefully correct implementation of wbkgdset();
10571 streamlined implementation of wbkgd()
10572 + Modified lib_mvwin.c: Disable move of a pad. Implement (costly)
10573 move of subwindows. Fixed update behavior of movements of regular
10575 + Fixed lib_pad.c: make chtype argument of pechochar() const.
10576 + Fixed lib_window.c: dupwin() is not(!) in every bit a really clone
10577 of the original. Subwindows become regular windows by doing a
10579 + Improved manpage form_fieldtype.3x
10580 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
10581 + simplify the PutChar() handling of exit_am_mode, because we already
10582 know that auto_right_margin is true.
10583 + add a check in PutChar() for ability to insert to the case of
10584 shifting character to LR corner.
10585 + in terminal initialization by _nc_screen_resume(), make sure that
10586 terminal right margin mode is known.
10587 + move logic that invokes touchline(), or does the equivalent, into
10588 _nc_scroll_window().
10589 + modify scrolling logic use of insert/delete line capability, assuming
10590 that they affect the screen contents only within the current
10592 + modify rain.c to demonstrate SIGWINCH handler.
10593 + remove logic from getch() that would return an ERR if the application
10594 called getch() when the cursor was at the lower-right corner of the
10595 physical screen, and the terminal does not have insert-character
10597 + change view.c so that it breaks out of getch() loop if a KEY_RESIZE
10598 is read, and modify logic in getch() so this fix will yield the
10599 desired behavior, i.e., the screen is repainted automatically when
10600 the terminal window is resized.
10603 + add configure option --enable-sigwinch
10604 + modify view.c to test KEY_RESIZE logic, with "-r" option.
10605 + modify testcurs.c to eliminate misleading display wrt cursor type
10606 by testing if the terminal supports cnorm, civis, cvvis.
10607 + several fixes for m68k/NeXT 4.0, to bring cur_term, _nc_curr_line and
10608 _nc_curr_col variables into linked programs: move these variables,
10609 making new modules lib_cur_term and trace_buf (reported by Francisco
10610 Alberto Tomei Torres <fatomei@sandburg.unm.edu>).
10611 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
10612 + add pseudo-functionkey KEY_RESIZE which is returned by getch() when
10613 the SIGWINCH handler has been called since the last call to
10615 + modify lib_twait.c to hide EINTR only if HIDE_EINTR is defined.
10616 + add SIGWINCH handler to ncurses library which is used if there is no
10617 application SIGWINCH handler in effect when the screen is
10619 + make linked list of all SCREEN structures.
10620 + move curses.h include before definition of SCREEN to use types in
10622 + correction to ensure that wgetstr uses only a newline to force a
10626 + add experimental configure option --enable-safe-sprintf; the normal
10627 mode now allocates a buffer as large as the screen for the
10628 lib_printw.c functions.
10629 + modify wgetch to refresh screen when reading ungetch'd characters,
10630 since the application may require this - SVr4 does this.
10631 + refine treatment of newline in wgetstr to echo only when this would
10632 force the screen to scroll.
10635 + remove override in wgetstr() that forces keypad(), since SVr4 does
10637 + correct y-reference for erasure in wgetstr() when a wrap forces a
10639 + correct x-position in waddch() after a wrap forces a scroll.
10640 + echo newline in wgetstr(), making testscanw.c scroll properly when
10642 + modify vwscanw() to avoid potential buffer overflow.
10643 + rewrote lib_printw.c to eliminate fixed-buffer limits.
10644 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
10645 + correct an error in handling cooked mode in wgetch(); processing
10646 was in the wrong order.
10647 + simplified logic in wgetch() that handles backspace, etc., by using
10649 + correct wechochar() so that it interprets the output character as
10651 + modify pechochar() to use prefresh() rather than doupdate(), since
10652 the latter does not guarantee immediate refresh of the pad.
10653 + modify pechochar() so that if called with a non-pad WINDOW, will
10654 invoke wechochar() instead.
10655 + modify fifo indices to allow fifo to be longer than 127 bytes.
10658 + add xterm-8bit to terminfo.src
10659 + moved logic for SP->_fifohold inside check_pending() to make it
10660 work properly when we add calls to that function.
10661 + ensure that bool functions return only TRUE or FALSE, and TRUE/FALSE
10662 are assigned to bool values (patch by H.J.Lu).
10663 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
10664 + several fixes to getch:
10665 1. Separate cooked and raw keys in fifo
10666 2. Fix the case of ungetch'ed KEY_MOUSE
10667 3. wrap the code for hiding EINTR with ifdef HIDE_EINTR
10668 4. correctly handle input errors (i.e., EINTR) without loss of raw
10670 5. recognize ESC KEY_LEFT and similar
10671 6. correctly handle the case of receiption of KEY_MOUSE from gpm
10672 + correct off-by-one indexing error in _nc_mouse_parse(), that caused
10673 single mouse events (press/release) to be ignored in favor of
10674 composed events (click). Improves on a fix from integrating gpm
10676 + add another call to check_pending, before scrolling, for
10677 line-breakout optimization
10678 + improve hashmap.c by
10679 1. fixed loop condition in grow_hunks()
10680 2. not marking lines with offset 0
10681 3. fixed condition of 'too far' criteria, thus one-line hunks are
10682 ignored and two lines interchanged won't pass.
10683 + rewrote/simplified _nc_scroll_optimize() by separating into two
10684 passes, forward/backward, looking for chunks moving only in the given
10686 + move logic that emits sgr0 when initializing the screen to
10687 _nc_screen_init(), now invoked from newterm.
10688 + move cursor-movement cleanup from endwin() into _nc_mvcur_wrap()
10689 function and screen cleanup (i.e., color) into _nc_screen_wrap()
10691 + add new functions _nc_screen_init(), _nc_screen_resume() and
10693 + rename _nc_mvcur_scrolln() to _nc_scrolln().
10694 + add a copy of acs_map[] to the SCREEN structure, where it can be
10695 stored/retrieved via set_term().
10696 + move variables _nc_idcok, _nc_idlok, _nc_windows into the SCREEN
10700 + implement experimental _nc_perform_scroll().
10701 + modify newterm (actually _nc_setupscreen()) to emit an sgr0 when
10702 initializing the screen, as does SVr4 (reported by Alexander V.
10704 + added test_progs rule to ncurses/Makefile.
10705 + modify test/configure.in to check if initscr is already in $LIBS
10706 before looking for (n)curses library.
10707 + correct version-number in configure script for OSF1 shared-library
10708 options (patch by Tim Mooney).
10709 + add -DNDEBUG to CPPFLAGS for --enable-assertions (as Juergen
10710 originally patched) since the c++ demo files do not necessarily
10711 include ncurses_cfg.h
10712 + supply default value for --enable-assertions option in configure
10713 script (reported by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu>).
10714 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
10715 + correct/simplify logic of werase(), wclrtoeol() and wclrbot(). See
10716 example firstlast.c
10717 + optimize waddch_literal() and waddch_nosync() by factoring out
10718 common subexpressions.
10719 + correct sense of NDEBUG ifdef for CHECK_POSITION macro.
10720 + corrections to render_char(), to make handling of colored blanks
10721 match SVr4 curses, as well as to correct a bug that xor'd space
10722 against the background character.
10723 + replaced hash function with a faster one (timed it)
10724 + rewrote the hashmap algorithm to be one-pass, this avoids multiple
10725 cost_effective() calls on the same lines.
10726 + modified cost_effective() so it is now slightly more precise.
10727 > patches for glibc integration (H.J.Lu):
10728 + add modules define_key, keyok, name_match, tries
10729 + add makefile rules for some of the unit tests in ncurses (mvcur,
10730 captoinfo, hardscroll, hashmap).
10731 + update Linux configure-script for wide-character definitions.
10734 + modify _tracebits() to show the character size (e.g., CS8).
10735 + modify tparm() to emit '\200' where the generated string would have a
10736 null (reported by From: Ian Dall <Ian.Dall@dsto.defence.gov.au> for
10737 terminal type ncr7900).
10738 + modify install process so that ldconfig is not invoked if the
10739 package is built with an install-prefix.
10740 + correct test program for chtype size (reported by Tim Mooney).
10741 + add configure option --disable-scroll-hints, using this to ifdef the
10742 logic that computes indices for _nc_scroll_optimize().
10743 + add module ncurses/softscroll.c, to perform single-stage computation
10744 of scroll indices used in _nc_scroll_optimize(). This is faster than
10745 the existing scrolling algorithm, but tends to make too-small hunks.
10746 + eliminate fixed buffer size in _nc_linedump().
10747 + minor fixes to lib_doupdate.c to add tradeoff between clr_eol (el)
10748 and clr_bol (el1), refine logic in ClrUpdate() and ClrBottom() (patch
10749 by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10750 + add test/testaddch.c, from a pending patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov.
10751 + correct processing of "configure --enable-assertions" option (patch
10752 by Juergen Pfeifer).
10755 + add '-s' (single-step) option too test/hashtest.c, correct an error
10756 in loop limit for '-f' (footer option), toggle scrollok() when
10757 writing footer to avoid wrap at lower-right corner.
10758 + correct behavior of clrtoeol() immediately after wrapping cursor,
10759 which was not clearing the line at the cursor position (reported by
10760 Liviu Daia <daia@stoilow.imar.ro>).
10761 + corrected mapping for ACS_LANTERN, which was 'I' rather than 'i'
10762 (reported by Klaus Weide <kweide@tezcat.com>).
10763 + many corrections to make progs/capconvert work, as well as make it
10764 reasonably portable and integrated with ncurses 4.1 (reported by Dave
10765 Furstenau <df@ravine.binary.net>).
10768 + add flag SP->_fifohold, corresponding logic to modify the behavior of
10769 the line breakout logic so that if the application does not read
10770 input, refreshes will not be stopped, but only slowed.
10771 + generate slk_attr_off(), slk_attr_on(), slk_attr_set(), vid_attr(),
10772 ifdef'd for wide-character support, since ncurses' WA_xxx attribute
10773 masks are identical with the A_xxx masks.
10774 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to generate ifdef'd functions to support optional
10775 configuration of wide-characters.
10776 + modify tset to behave more like SVr4's tset, which does not modify
10777 the settings of intr, quit or erase unless they are given as command
10778 options (reported by Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe@math.utah.edu>).
10779 + modify tset to look in /etc/ttys or /etc/ttytype if the configuration
10780 does not have getttynam().
10781 + extend baudrate table in tset.c to match baudrate() function.
10782 + add table entries for B230400 and B460800 to baudrate() function.
10783 + improve breakout logic by allowing it before the first line updated,
10784 which is what SVr4 curses does (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10785 + correct initialization of vcost in relative_move(), for cursor-down
10786 case (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10787 > nits gleaned from Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-3:
10788 + install symbolic link for intotocap.
10789 + reference libc directly when making shared libraries.
10790 + correct renaming of curs_scr_dmp.3x in man_db.renames.
10791 + guard tgetflag() and other termcap functions against null cur_term
10795 + corrected initial state of software echo (error in 970405, reported
10796 by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10797 + reviewed/added messages to configure script, so that all non-test
10798 options should be accompanied by a message.
10799 + add configure check for long filenames, using this to determine if
10800 it is safe to allow long aliases for terminal descriptions as does
10802 + add configure options for widec (wide character), hashmap (both
10804 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
10805 + hashmap.c - improved by heuristic, so that scroll test works much
10806 better when csr is not available.
10807 + hardscroll.c - patched so that it continues to scroll other chunks
10808 after failure to scroll one.
10809 + lib_doupdate.c - _nc_mvcur_scrolln extended to handle more cases; csr
10810 is avoided as it is relative costly. Fixed wrong coordinates in one
10811 case and wrong string in TRACE.
10812 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
10813 + modify C++ binding to compile on AIX 4.x with the IBM C-SET++
10817 + remove alternate character set from kterm terminfo entry; it uses the
10818 shift-out control for a purpose incompatible with curses, i.e., font
10820 + disentangle 'xterm' terminfo entry from some derived entries that
10821 should be based on xterm-r6 instead.
10822 + add cbt to xterm-xf86-xv32 terminfo entry; I added the emulation for
10823 XFree86 3.1.2F, but overlooked its use in terminfo then - T.Dickey.
10824 + correct logic in lib_mvcur.c that uses back_tab.
10827 + correct change from 970628 to ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c so that
10828 contents of curscr are saved in newscr before clearing the screen.
10829 This is needed to make repainting work with the present logic of
10831 + use napms() rather than sleep() in tset.c to avoid interrupting I/O.
10834 + add limit checks to _nc_read_file_entry() to guard against overflow
10835 of buffer when reading incompatible terminfo format, e.g, from OSF/1.
10836 + correct some loop-variable errors in xmc support in lib_doupdate.c
10837 + modify ncurses 'b' test to add gaps, specified by user, to allow
10838 investigation of interaction with xmc (magic cookie) code.
10839 + correct typo in 970524 mods to xmas.c, had omitted empty parameter
10840 list from has_colors(), which gcc ignores, but SVr4 does not
10841 (reported by Larry Virden).
10842 + correct rmso capability in wy50-mc description.
10843 + add configure option "--enable-hard-tabs", renamed TABS_OK ifdef to
10845 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
10846 + Add bindings for keyok() and define_key() to the Ada95 packages.
10847 + Improve man pages menu_post.3x and menu_format.3x
10848 + Fix the HTML pages in the Ada95/html directory to reflect the above
10852 + modify change from 970101 to ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c so that
10853 pending changes to both curscr and newscr are flushed properly.
10854 This fixes a case where the first scrolling operation in nvi would
10855 cause the screen to be cleared unnecessarily and repainted before
10856 doing the indexing, i.e., by repeatedly pressing 'j' (reported by
10858 + correct error in trans_string() which added embedded newlines in a
10859 terminfo description to the stored strings.
10860 + remove spurious newlines from sgr in wyse50 (and several other)
10861 terminfo descriptions.
10862 + add configure option for experimental xmc (magic cookie) code,
10863 "--enable-xmc-glitch". When disabled (the default), attributes that
10864 would store a magic cookie are suppressed in vidputs(). The magic
10865 cookie code is far from workable at this stage; the configuration
10866 option is a stopgap.
10867 + move _nc_initscr() from lib_initscr.c to lib_newterm.c
10868 + correct path for invoking make_keys (a missing "./").
10871 + correct sign-extension problem with "infocmp -e", which corrupted
10872 acsc values computed for linux fallback data.
10873 + correct dependency on ncurses/names.c (a missing "./").
10874 + modify configure script to use '&&' even for cd'ing to existing
10875 directories to work around broken shell interpreters.
10876 + correct a loop-limit in _nc_hash_map() (patch by Alexander V.
10880 + restore logic in _nc_scroll_optimize() which marks as touched the
10881 lines in curscr that are shifted.
10882 + add new utility 'make_keys' to compute keys.tries as a table rather
10883 than a series of function calls.
10884 + correct include-dependency for tic.h used by name_match
10885 + removed buffer-allocation for name and description from m_item_new.c,
10886 since this might result in incompatibilities with SVr4. Also fixed
10887 the corresponding Ada95 binding module (patch by Juergen Pfeifer,
10888 report by Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@foxnet.net>)
10889 + removed the mechanism to timestamp the generated Ada95 sources. This
10890 resulted always in generating patches for the HTML doc, even when
10891 nothing really changed (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10892 + improve man page mitem_new.3x (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10895 + remove ech capability from rxvt description because it does not work.
10896 + add missing case logic for infocmp -I option (reported by Lorenzo M.
10897 Catucci <lorenzo@argon.roma2.infn.it>)
10898 + correct old bug in pnoutrefresh() unmasked by fix in 970531; this
10899 caused glitches in the ncurses 'p' test since the area outside the
10900 pad was not compared when setting up indices for _nc_scroll_optimize.
10901 + rewrote tracebits() to workaround misdefinition of TOSTOP on Ultrix
10902 4.4, as well as to eliminate fixed-size buffer (reported by Chris
10903 Tanner <tannerc@aecl.ca>)
10904 + correct prototype for termattrs() as per XPG4 version 2.
10905 + add placeholder prototypes for color_set(), erasewchar(),
10906 term_attrs(), wcolor_set() as per XPG4 version 2.
10907 + correct attribution for progs/progs.priv.h and lib_twait.c
10908 + improve line-breakout logic by checking based on changed lines rather
10909 than total lines (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10910 + correct loop limits for table-lookup of enumerated value in form
10911 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10912 + improve threshhold computation for determining when to call ClrToEOL
10913 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10916 + add configure option --disable-database to force the library to
10917 use only the fallback data.
10918 + add configure option --with-fallbacks, to specify list of fallback
10919 terminal descriptions.
10920 + add a symbolic link for ncurses.h during install; too many programs
10921 still assume there's an ncurses.h
10922 + add new terminfo.src entry for xterm-xf86-v33.
10923 + restore terminfo.src entry for emu to using setf/setb, since it is
10924 not, after all, generating ANSI sequences. Corrected missing comma
10925 that caused setf/setb entries to merge.
10926 + modify mousemask() to use keyok() to enable/disable KEY_MOUSE, so
10927 that applications can disable ncurses' mouse and supply their own
10929 + add extensions keyok() and define_key(). These are designed to allow
10930 the user's application better control over the use of function keys,
10931 e.g., disabling the ncurses KEY_MOUSE. (The define_key idea was from
10932 a mailing-list thread started by Kenneth Albanowski
10933 <kjahds@kjahds.com> Nov'1995).
10934 + restore original behavior in ncurses 'g' test, i.e., explicitly
10935 set the keypad mode rather than use the default, since it confuses
10937 + rewrote the newdemo banner so it's readable (reported by Hugh
10939 + tidy up exit from hashtest (reported by Hugh Daniel).
10940 + restore check for ^Q in ncurses 'g' test broken in 970510 (reported
10942 + correct tput program, checking return-value of setupterm (patch by
10944 + correct logic in pnoutrefresh() and pechochar() functions (reported
10945 by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf.usc.edu>). The computation
10946 of 'wide' date to eric's #283 (1.9.9), and the pechochar bug to the
10947 original implementation (1.9.6).
10948 + correct typo in vt102-w terminfo.src entry (patch by Robert Wuest
10949 <rwuest@sire.vt.com>)
10950 + move calls of _nc_background() out of various loops, as its return
10951 value will be the same for the whole window being operated on (patch
10953 + add macros getcur[xy] getbeg[xy] getpar[xy], which are defined in
10954 SVr4 headers (patch by J T Conklin <jtc@NetBSD.ORG>)
10955 + modify glibc addon-configure scripts (patch by H.J.Lu).
10956 + correct a bug in hashmap.c: the size used for clearing the hashmap
10957 table was incorrect, causing stack corruption for large values of
10958 LINES, e.g., >MAXLINES/2 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10959 + eric's terminfo 9.13.23 & 9.13.24 changes: replaced minitel-2 entry,
10960 added MGR, ansi-nt (note: the changes described for 9.13.24 have not
10962 > several changes by Juergen Pfeifer:
10963 + correct a missing error-return in form_driver.c when wrapping of a
10964 field is not possible.
10965 + correct logic in form_driver.c for configurations that do not have
10966 memccpy() (reported by Sidik Isani <isani@cfht.hawaii.edu>)
10967 + change several c++ binding functions to inline.
10968 + modify c++ menu binding to inherit from panels, for proper
10970 + correct freeing of menu items in c++ binding.
10971 + modify c++ binding to reflect removal of const from user data pointer
10972 in forms/menus libraries.
10975 + add description of xterm-16color.
10976 + modify name of shared-library on *BSD to end with $(REL_VERSION)
10977 rather than $(ABI_VERSION) to match actual convention on FreeBSD
10979 + add OpenBSD to shared-library case, same as NetBSD and FreeBSD
10980 (reported by Hugh Daniel <hugh@rat.toad.com>).
10981 + corrected include-dependency in menu/Makefile so that "make install"
10982 works properly w/o first doing "make".
10983 + add fallback definition for isascii, used in infocmp.
10984 + modify xmas to use color, and to exit right away when a key is
10986 + modify gdc so that the scrolled digits function as described (there
10987 was no time delay between the stages, and the digits overwrote the
10988 bounding box without tidying up).
10989 + modify lib_color.c to use setaf/setab only for the ANSI color codes
10990 0 through 7. Using 16 colors requires setf/setb.
10991 + modify ncurses 'c' test to work with 16 colors, as well as the normal
10993 + remove const qualifier from user data pointer in forms and menus
10994 libraries (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10995 + rewrote 'waddchnstr()' to avoid using the _nc_waddch_nosync()
10996 function, thereby not interpreting tabs, etc., as per spec (patch by
10997 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11000 + suppress check for pre-existing ncurses header if the --prefix
11001 option is specified.
11002 + add configure options "--with-system-type" and
11003 "--with-system-release" to assist in checking the generated
11005 + add configure option "--enable-rpath" to allow installers to specify
11006 that programs linked against shared libraries will have their library
11007 path embedded, allowing installs into nonstandard locations.
11008 + add flags to OSF1 shared-library options to specify version and
11009 symbol file (patch by Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>)
11010 + add missing definition for ABI_VERSION to c++/Makefile.in (reported
11011 by Satoshi Adachi <adachi@wisdom.aa.ap.titech.ac.jp>).
11012 + modify link flags to accommodate HP-UX linker which embeds absolute
11013 pathnames in executables linked against shared libraries (reported by
11014 Jason Evans <jasone@mrc.uidaho.edu>, solved by Alan Shutko
11015 <ats@hubert.wustl.edu>).
11016 + drop unnecessary check for attribute-change in onscreen_mvcur() since
11017 mvcur() is the only caller within the library, and that check in turn
11018 is exercised only from lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V.
11020 + add 'blank' parameter to _nc_scroll_window() so _nc_mvcur_scrolln()
11021 can use the background of stdscr as a parameter to that function
11022 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11023 + moved _nc_mvcur_scrolln() from lib_mvcur.c to lib_doupdate.c, to use
11024 the latter's internal functions, as well as to eliminate unnecessary
11025 cursor save/restore operations (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11026 + omit parameter of ClrUpdate(), since it is called only for newscr,
11027 further optimized/reduced by using ClearScreen() and TransformLine()
11028 to get rid of duplicate code (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11029 + modify scrolling algorithm in _nc_scroll_optimize() to reject hunks
11030 that are smaller than the distance to be moved (patch by Alexander V.
11032 + correct a place where the panel library was not ifdef'd in ncurses.c
11034 + documentation fixes (Juergen Pfeifer)
11036 970515 4.1 release for upload to prep.ai.mit.edu
11037 + re-tag changes since 970505 as 4.1 release.
11040 + modify ncurses 'g' test to allow mouse input
11041 + modify default xterm description to include mouse.
11042 + modify configure script to add -Wwrite-strings if gcc warnings are
11043 enabled while configuring --enable-const (and fixed related
11045 + add toggle, status display for keypad mode to ncurses 'g' test to
11046 verify that keypad and scrollok are not inherited from parent window
11047 during a call to newwin.
11048 + correction to MKexpanded.sh to make it work when configure --srcdir
11049 is used (reported by H.J.Lu).
11050 + revise test for bool-type, ensuring that it checks if builtin.h is
11051 available before including it, adding test for sizeof(bool) equal
11052 to sizeof(short), and warning user if the size cannot be determined
11053 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11054 + add files to support configuration of ncurses as an add-on library
11055 for GNU libc (patch by H.J.Lu <hjl@lucon.org>)
11058 + correct buffer overrun in lib_traceatr.c
11059 + modify change to lib_vidattr.c to avoid redundant orig_pair.
11060 + turn on 'echo()' in hanoi.c, since it is initially off.
11061 + rename local 'errno' variable in etip.h to avoid conflict with global
11063 + modify configure script to cache LD, AR, AR_OPTS (patch by H.J.Lu
11066 970505 4.1 pre-release
11067 + regenerate the misc directory html dumps without the link list, which
11069 + correct dependency in form directory makefile which caused
11070 unnecessary recompiles.
11071 + correct substitution for ABI_VERSION in test-makefile
11072 + modify install rules for shared-library targets to remove the target
11073 before installing, since some install programs do not properly handle
11074 overwrite of symbolic links.
11075 + change order of top-level targets so that 'include' immediate
11076 precedes the 'ncurses' directory, reducing the time between new
11077 headers and new libraries (requested by Larry Virden).
11078 + modify lib_vidattr.c so that colors are turned off only before
11079 modifying other attributes, turned on after others. This makes the
11080 hanoi.c program display correctly on FreeBSD console.
11081 + modify debug code in panel library to print user-data addresses
11082 rather than the strings which they (may) point to.
11083 + add check to ensure that C++ binding and demo are not built with g++
11084 versions below 2.7, since the binding uses templates.
11085 + modify c++ binding and demo to build and run with SGI's c++ compiler.
11086 (It also compiles with the Sun SparcWorks compiler, but the demo does
11087 not link, due to a vtbl problem).
11088 + corrections to demo.cc, to fix out-of-scope variables (Juergen
11092 + correct memory leak in _nc_trace_buf().
11093 + add configure test for regexpr.h, for Unixware 1.x.
11094 + correct missing "./" prefixing names of generated files in ncurses
11096 + use single-quotes in configure scripts assignments for MK_SHARED_LIB
11097 to workaround shell bug on FreeBSD 2.1.5
11098 + remove tabs from intermediate #define's for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF
11099 that caused incorrect result in ncurses_cfg.h
11100 + correct initialization in lib_trace.c, which omitted version info.
11101 + remove ech, el1 attributes from cons25w description; they appear to
11102 malfunction in FreeBSD 2.1.5
11103 + correct color attributes in terminfo.src and lib_color.c to match
11104 SVr4 behavior by interchanging codes 1,4, 3,6 in the setf/setb
11106 + use curs_set() rather than checks via tigetstr() for test programs
11107 that hide the cursor: firework, rain, worm.
11108 + ensure that if the terminal lacks change_scroll_region, parm_index
11109 and parm_rindex are used only to scroll the whole screen (patch by
11111 + correct curs_set() logic, which did not return ERR if the requested
11112 attributes did not exist, nor did it assume an unknown initial state
11113 for the cursor (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11114 + combine IDcTransformLine and NoIDcTransformLine to new TransformLine
11115 function in lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11116 + correct hashmap.c, which did not update index information (patch by
11117 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11118 + fixes for C++ binding and demo (see c++/NEWS) (Juergen Pfeifer).
11119 + correct index in lib_instr.c (Juergen Pfeifer).
11120 + correct typo in 970426 patch from Tom's cleanup of lib_overlay.c
11121 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
11124 + corrected cost computation in PutRange(), which was using
11125 milliseconds compared to characters by adding two new members to the
11126 SCREEN struct, _hpa_ch_cost and _cup_ch_cost.
11127 + drop ncurses/lib_unctrl.c, add ncurses/MKunctrl.awk to generate a
11128 const array of strings (suggested by Alexander V. Lukyanov). The
11129 original suggestion in 970118 used a perl script.
11130 + rewrote ncurses 'b' test to better exercise magic-cookie (xmc), as
11131 well as noting the attributes that are not supported by a terminal.
11132 + trace the computation of cost values in lib_mvcur.c
11133 + modify _nc_visbuf() to use octal rather than hex, corrected sign
11134 extension bug in that function that caused buffer overflow.
11135 + modify trace in lib_acs.c to use _nc_visbuf().
11136 + suppress trace within _traceattr2().
11137 + correct logic of _tracechtype2(), which did not account for repeats
11138 or redefinition within an acsc string.
11139 + modify debug-library version baudrate() to use environment variable
11140 $BAUDRATE to override speed computation. This is needed for
11141 regression testing.
11142 + correct problems shown by "weblint -pedantic".
11143 + update mailing-list information (now ncurses@bsdi.com).
11146 + Improve form_field_validation.3x manpage to better describe the
11147 precision parameter for TYPE_NUMERIC and TYPE_INTEGER. Provide more
11148 precise information how the range checking can be avoided. (patch by
11149 Juergen Pfeifer, reported by Bryan Henderson)
11150 + change type of min/max value of form types TYPE_INTEGER to long to
11151 match SVr4 documentation.
11152 + set the form window to stdscr in set_form_win() so that form_win()
11153 won't return null (patch by Juergen Pfeifer, reported by Bryan
11154 Henderson <bryanh@giraffe.netgate.net>).
11157 + corrected ifdef'ing of inline (cf: 970321) for TRACE vs C++.
11158 + corrected toggle_attr_off() macro (patch by Andries Brouwer).
11159 + modify treatment of empty token in $MANPATH to /usr/man (reported by
11160 <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>)
11161 + modify traces that record functions-called so that chtype and attr_t
11162 values are expressed symbolically, to simplify reuse of generated
11163 test-scripts on SVr4 regression testing.
11164 + add new trace functions _traceattr2() and _tracechtype2()
11167 + add configure option --enable-const, to support the use of 'const'
11168 where XSI should have, but did not, specify. This defines
11169 NCURSES_CONST, which is an empty token otherwise, for strict
11171 + make processing of configure options more verbose by echoing the
11172 --enable/--with values.
11173 + add configure option --enable-big-core
11174 + set initial state of software echo off as per XSI.
11175 + check for C++ builtin.h header
11176 + correct computation of absolute-path for $INSTALL that dropped "-c"
11177 parameter from the expression.
11178 + rename config.h to ncurses_cfg.h to avoid naming-conflict when
11179 ncurses is integrated into larger systems (adapted from diffs by
11181 + correct inequality in lib_doupdate.c that caused a single-char to not
11182 be updated when the char on the right-margin was not blank, idcok()
11183 was true (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov (in 970124), reported
11184 by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu> in 970329).
11185 + modify 'clean' rule in include/Makefile so that files created by
11186 configure script are removed in 'distclean' rule instead.
11189 + correct array limit in tparam_internal(), add case to interpret "%x"
11190 (patch by Andreas Schwab)
11191 + rewrote number-parsing in ncurses.c 'd' test; it did not reset the
11192 value properly when non-numeric characters were given (reported by
11193 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>)
11196 + move definition of __INTERNAL_CAPS_VISIBLE before include for
11197 progs.priv.h (patch by David MacKenzie).
11198 + add configuration summary, reordered check for default include
11199 directory to better accommodate a case where installer is configuring
11200 a second copy of ncurses (reported by Klaus Weide
11201 <kweide@tezcat.com>)
11202 + moved the #define for 'inline' as an empty token from the
11203 $(CFLAGS_DEBUG) symbol into config.h, to avoid redefinition warning
11204 (reported by Ward Horner).
11205 + modify test for bool builtin type to use 'unsigned' rather than
11206 'unknown' when cross-compiling (reported by Ward Horner).
11209 + add header dependencies so that "make install.libs" will succeed
11210 even if "make all" is not done first.
11211 + moved some macros from lib_doupdate.c to curses.priv.h to use in
11212 expanded functions with ATAC.
11213 + correct implementation of lib_instr.c; both XSI and SVr4 agree that
11214 the winnstr functions can return more characters than will fit on one
11218 + modify script that generates lib_gen.c to support traces of called &
11220 + add new configure option "--disable-macros", for testing calls within
11222 + corrected logic that screens level-checking of called/return traces.
11225 + use new configure macro NC_SUBST to replace AC_PATH_PROG, better
11226 addressing request by Ward Horner.
11227 + check for cross-compiling before trying to invoke the autoconf
11228 AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED macro (reported by Ward Horner)
11229 + correct/simplify loop in _nc_visbuf(), 970201 changes omitted
11230 a pointer-increment.
11231 + eliminate obsolete symbol SHARED_ABI from dist.mk (noted by
11235 + add configure option --enable-expanded, together with code that
11236 implements an expanded form of certain complex macros, for testing
11238 + disable CHECK_POSITION unless --with-assertions is configured
11239 (Alexander V Lukyanov pointed out that this is redundant).
11240 + use keyname() to show traced chtype values where applicable rather
11241 than _tracechar(), which truncates the value to 8-bits.
11242 + minor fixes to TRACE_ICALLS, added T_CREATE, TRACE_CCALLS macros.
11243 + modify makefiles in progs and test directories to avoid using C
11244 preprocessor options on link commands (reported by Ward Horner)
11245 + correct ifdef/include-order for nc_alloc.h vs lib_freeall.c (reported
11247 + modify ifdef's to use configure-defined symbols consistently
11248 (reported by Ward Horner)
11249 + add/use new makefile symbols AR, AR_OPTS and LD to assist in non-UNIX
11250 ports (reported by Ward Horner <whorner@tsi-telsys.com>)
11251 + rename struct try to struct tries, to avoid name conflict with C++
11252 (reported by Gary Johnson).
11253 + modify worm.c to hide cursor while running.
11254 + add -Wcast-qual to gcc warnings, fix accordingly.
11255 + use PutChar rather than PutAttrChar in ClrToEOL to properly handle
11256 wrapping (Alexander V Lukyanov).
11257 + correct spurious echoing of input in hanoi.c from eric's #291 & #292
11258 patches (reported by Vernon C. Hoxie <vern@zebra.alphacdc.com>).
11259 + extend IRIX configuration to IRIX64
11260 + supply missing install.libs rule needed after restructuring
11264 + modify "make mostlyclean" to leave automatically-generated source
11265 in the ncurses directory, for use in cross-compiles.
11266 + autogenerated object-dependencies for test directory
11267 + add configure option --with-rcs-ids
11268 + modify configuration scripts to generate major/minor/patch versions
11269 (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11270 + supply missing va_end's in lib_scanw.c
11271 + use stream I/O for trace-output, to eliminate fixed-size buffer
11272 + add TRACE_ICALLS definition/support to lib_trace.c
11273 + modify Ada95 binding to work with GNAT 3.09 (Juergen Pfeifer).
11276 + add/modify traces for called/return values to simplify extraction
11278 + changed _nc_visbuf to quote its result, and to dynamically allocate
11279 the returned buffer.
11280 + invoke ldconfig after installing shared library
11281 + modify install so that overwrite applies to shared library -lcurses
11282 in preference to static library (reported by Zeyd M Ben-Halim 960928).
11283 + correct missing ';' in 961221 mod to overwrite optional use of $(LN_S)
11285 + fixes to allow "make install" to work without first doing a "make
11286 all" (suggested by Larry Virden).
11289 + correct order of #ifdef for TABS_OK.
11290 + instrumented toe.c to test memory-leaks.
11291 + correct memory-deallocation in toe.c (patch by Jesse Thilo).
11292 + include <sys/types.h> in configuration test for regex.h (patch by
11294 + make infocmp recognize -I option, for SVr4 compatibility (reported by
11295 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>)
11298 + add extension 'use_default_colors()', modified test applications that
11299 use default background (firework, gdc, hanoi, knight, worm) to
11301 + correct some limit checks in lib_doupdate.c exposed while running
11303 + use typeCalloc macro for readability.
11304 + add/use definition for CONST to accommodate testing with Solaris
11305 (SVr4) curses, which doesn't use 'const' in its prototypes.
11306 + modify ifdef's in test/hashtest.c and test/view.c to compile with
11308 + modify _tracedump() to pad colors & attrs lines to match change
11309 in 970101 showing first/last changes.
11310 + corrected location of terminating null on dynamically allocated forms
11311 fields (patch by Per Foreby).
11314 + added headers to make view.c compile on SCO with the resizeterm()
11315 code (i.e., struct winsize) - though this compiles, I don't have a
11316 suitable test configuration since SIGWINCH doesn't pass my network to
11317 that machine - T.Dickey.
11318 + update test/configure.in to supply some default substitutions.
11319 + modify configure script to add -lncurses after -lgpm to fix problem
11320 linking against static libraries.
11321 + add a missing noraw() to test/ncurses.c (places noted by Jeremy
11323 + add a missing wclear() to test/testcurs.c (patch by Jeremy Buhler
11324 <jbuhler@cs.washington.edu>)
11325 + modify headers to accommodate compilers that don't allow duplicate
11326 "#define" lines for NCURSES_VERSION (reported by Larry W. Virden
11328 + fix formatting glitch in curs_getch.3x (patch by Jesse Thilo).
11329 + modify lib_doupdate to make el, el1 and ed optimization use the
11330 can_clear_with macro, and change EmitRange to allow leaving cursor at
11331 the middle of interval, rather than always at the end (patch by
11332 Alexander V Lukyanov). This was originally 960929, resync 970106.
11335 + workaround defect in autoconf 2.12 (which terminates configuration
11336 if no C++ compiler is found) by adding an option --without-cxx.
11337 + modify several man-pages to use tbl, where .nf/.fi was used (reported
11339 + correct font-codes in some man-pages (patch by Jesse Thilo
11340 <Jesse.Thilo@pobox.com>)
11341 + use configure script's knowledge of existence of g++ library for the
11342 c++ Makefile (reported by Paul Jackson).
11343 + correct misleading description of --datadir configuration option
11344 (reported by Paul Jackson <pj@sam.engr.sgi.com>)
11347 + several corrections to _nc_mvcur_scrolln(), prompted by a bug report
11349 > the logic for non_dest_scroll_region was interchanged between the
11350 forward & reverse scrolling cases.
11351 > multiple returns from the function allowed certain conditions to do
11352 part of an operation before discovering that it couldn't be
11353 completed, returning an error without restoring the cursor.
11354 > some returns were ERR, where the function had completed the
11355 operation, because the insert/delete line logic was improperly
11356 tested (this was probably the case Peter saw).
11357 > contrary to comments, some scrolling cases were tested after the
11358 insert/delete line method.
11359 + modify _tracedump() to show first/last changes.
11360 + modify param of ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c to 'newscr', fixes
11361 refresh problem (reported by Peter Wemm) that caused nvi to not show
11362 result of ":r !ls" until a ^L was typed.
11364 961229 (internal alpha)
11365 + correct some of the writable-strings warnings (reported by Gary
11366 Johnson <gjohnson@season.com>). Note that most of the remaining ones
11367 are part of the XSI specification, and can't be "fixed".
11368 + improve include-dependencies in form, menu, panel directories.
11369 + correct logic of delay_output(), which would return early if
11370 there is data on stdin.
11371 + modify interface & logic of _nc_timed_wait() to support 2 file
11372 descriptors, needed for GPM.
11373 + integrate patch by Andrew Kuchling <amk@magnet.com> for GPM (mouse)
11374 support, correcting logic in wgetch() and _nc_mouse_parse() which
11375 prevented patch from working properly -TD
11376 + improve performance of panel algorithm (Juergen Pfeifer 961203).
11377 + strip RCS id's from generated .html files in Ada95 subtree.
11378 + resync with generated .html files (Juergen Pfeifer 961223).
11379 + terminfo.src 10.1.0 (ESR).
11382 + release as 4.0 to accommodate Linux ld.so.1.8.5
11383 + correct syntax/spelling, regenerated .doc files from .html using
11385 + refined forms/menus makefiles (Juergen Pfeifer 961223).
11388 + remove logic in read_entry.c that attempts to refine errno by using
11389 'access()' for the directory (from patch by Florian La Roche).
11390 + correct configure test/substitution that inhibits generating
11391 include-path to /usr/include if gcc is used (reported by Florian La
11393 + modify setupterm() to allocate new TERMINAL for each call, just as
11394 solaris' curses does (Alexander V Lukyanov 960829).
11395 + corrected memory leaks in read_entry.c
11396 + add configure options --with-dbmalloc, --with-dmalloc, and
11397 --disable-leaks, tested by instrumenting infocmp, ncurses programs.
11398 + move #include's for stdlib.h and string.h to *.priv.h to accommodate
11400 + modify use of $(LN_S) to follow recommendation in autoconf 2.12,
11401 i.e., set current directory before linking.
11402 + split-out panel.priv.h, improve dependencies for forms, menus
11403 (Juergen Pfeifer 961204).
11404 + modify _nc_freewin() to reset globals curscr/newscr/stdscr when
11405 freeing the corresponding WINDOW (found using Purify).
11406 + modify delwin() to return ERR if the window to be deleted has
11407 subwindows, needed as a side-effect of resizeterm() (found using
11408 Purify). Tested and found that SVr4 curses behaves this way.
11409 + implement logic for _nc_freeall(), bringing stub up to date.
11412 + modify wbkgd() so that it doesn't set nulls in the rendered text,
11413 even if its argument doesn't specify a character (fixes test case by
11414 Juergen Pfeifer for bug-report).
11415 + set window-attributes in wbkgd(), to simplify comparison against
11416 Solaris curses, which does this.
11419 + replace most constants in ncurses 'o' test by expressions, making it
11420 work with wider range of screen sizes.
11421 + add options to ncurses.c to specify 'e' test softkey format, and the
11422 number of header/footer lines to rip-off.
11423 + add ^R (repaint after resize), ^L (refresh) commands to ncurses 'p'
11425 + add shell-out (!) command to ncurses 'p' test to allow test of
11426 resize between endwin/refresh.
11427 + correct line-wrap case in mvcur() by emitting carriage return,
11428 overlooked in 960928, but needed due to SVr4 compatibility changes to
11429 terminal modes in 960907.
11430 + correct logic in wresize that causes new lines to be allocated,
11431 broken for the special case of increasing rows only in 960907's fix
11433 + modify configure script to generate $(LDFLAGS) with -L and -l options
11434 in preference to explicit library filenames. (NOTE: this may
11435 require further amending, since I vaguely recall a dynamic loader
11436 that did not work properly without the full names, but it should be
11437 handled as an exception to the rule, since some linkers do bulk
11438 inclusion of libraries when given the full name - T.Dickey).
11439 + modify configure script to allow user-supplied $CFLAGS to set the
11440 debug-option in all libraries (requested by lots of people) -TD
11441 + use return consistently from main(), rather than exit (reported by
11443 + add --enable-getcap-cache option to configure, normally disabled
11444 (requested by Florian La Roche).
11445 + make configure test for gettimeofday() and possibly -lbsd more
11446 efficient (requested by Florian La Roche <florian@knorke.saar.de>)
11447 + minor adjustments to Ada95 binding (patches by Juergen Pfeifer)
11448 + correct attributes after emitting orig_pair in lib_vidattr.c (patch
11449 by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11452 + corrected README wrt Ada95 (Juergen Pfeifer)
11455 + integrate resizeterm() into doupdate(), so that if screen size
11456 changes between endwin/refresh, ncurses will resize windows to fit
11457 (this needs additional testing with pads and softkeys).
11458 + add, for memory-leak testing, _nc_freeall() entrypoint to free all
11459 data used in ncurses library.
11460 + initialize _nc_idcok, _nc_idlok statically to resolve discrepancy
11461 between initscr() and newwin() initialization (reported by
11462 Alexander V Lukyanov).
11463 + test built VERSION=4.0, SHARED_ABI=4 with Linux ld.so.1.8.5
11464 (set beta versions to those values -- NOTE that subsequent pre-4.0
11465 beta may not be interchangeable).
11466 + modify configure script to work with autoconf 2.12
11468 961130 1.9.9g release
11469 + add copyright notices to configuration scripts (written by Thomas
11473 > patch, mostly for panel (Juergen Pfeifer):
11474 + cosmetic improvement for a few routines in the ncurses core library
11475 to avoid warning messages.
11476 + the panel overlap detection was broken
11477 + the panel_window() function was not fool-proof.
11479 + Cosmetic changes (also to avoid warning messages when compiling with
11483 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
11484 + eliminates warning messages for the compile of libform.
11485 + inserts Per Foreby's new field type TYPE_IPV4 into libform.
11486 + Updates man page and the Ada95 binding to reflect this.
11487 + Improves inlining in libmenu and libform.
11490 + improve the use of the "const" qualifier in the
11491 panel library (Juergen Pfeifer)
11492 + change set_panel_userptr() and panel_userptr() to use void*
11496 + change ABI to 3.4
11497 + package with 961119 version of Ada95 binding (fixes for gnat-3.07).
11499 + correct initialization of the stdscr pseudo panel in panel library
11501 + use MODULE_ID (rcs keywords) in forms and menus libraries (Juergen
11503 > patch #324 (ESR):
11504 + typo in curs_termcap man page (reported by Hendrik Reichel
11505 <106065.2344@compuserve.com>)
11506 + change default xterm entry to xterm-r6.
11507 + add entry for color_xterm
11510 + lint found several functions that had only #define implementations
11511 (e.g., attr_off), modified curses.h.in to generate them as per XSI
11512 Curses requirement that every macro be available as a function.
11513 + add check in infocmp.c to guard against string compare of
11514 CANCELLED_STRING values.
11515 + modify firework.c, rain.c to hide cursor while running.
11516 + correct missing va_end in lib_tparm.c
11517 + modify hanoi.c to work on non-color terminals, and to use timing
11518 delays when in autoplay mode.
11519 + correct 'echochar()' to refresh immediately (reported by Adrian
11520 Garside <94ajg2@eng.cam.ac.uk>)
11521 > patch #322 (ESR):
11522 + reorganize terminfo.src entries for xterm.
11525 + corrected error in line-breakout logic (lib_doupdate.c)
11526 + modified newdemo to use wgetch(win) rather than getch() to eliminate
11527 a spurious clear-screen.
11528 + corrected ifdef's for 'poll()' configuration.
11529 + added modules to ncurses, form, menu for Ada95 binding (Juergen
11531 + modify set_field_buffer() to allow assignment of string longer than
11532 the initial buffer length, and to return the complete string rather
11533 than only the initial size (Juergen Pfeifer and Per Foreby
11534 <perf@efd.lth.se>).
11537 + configure for 'poll()' in preference to 'select()', since older
11538 systems are more likely to have a broken 'select()'.
11539 + modified render_char() to avoid OR'ing colors.
11540 + minor fixes to testcurs.c, newdemo.c test programs: ifdef'd out the
11541 resize test, use wbkgd and corrected box() parameters.
11542 + make flushinp() test work in ncurses.c by using napms() instead of
11544 + undo ESR's changes to xterm-x11r6 (it no longer matched the X11R6.1
11545 distribution, as stated)
11546 + terminfo 9.13.18 resync (ESR)
11547 + check for getenv("HOME") returning null (ESR).
11548 + change buffer used to decode xterm-mouse commands to unsigned to
11549 handle displays wider than 128 chars (Juergen Pfeifer).
11550 + correct typo curs_outopts.3x (Juergen Pfeifer).
11551 + correct limit-checking in wenclose() (Juergen Pfeifer).
11552 + correction to Peter Wemm's newwin change (Thomas Fehr
11554 + corrections to logic that combines colors and attributes; they must
11555 not be OR'd (Juergen Pfeifer, extending from report/patch by Rick
11559 + reset flags in 'getwin()' that might cause refresh to attempt to
11560 manipulate the non-existent parent of a window that is read from a
11561 file (lib_screen.c).
11562 + restructure _nc_timed_wait() to log more information, and to try to
11563 recover from badly-behaved 'select()' calls (still testing this).
11564 + move define for GOOD_SELECT into configure script.
11565 + corrected extra '\' character inserted before ',' in comp_scan.c
11566 + corrected expansion of %-format characters in dump_entry.c; some were
11567 rendered as octal constants.
11568 + modify dump_entry.c to make terminfo output more readable and like
11569 SVr4, by using "\s" for spaces (leading/trailing only), "\," for
11570 comma, "\^" and "\:" as well.
11571 + corrected some memory leaks in ncurses.c, and a minor logic error
11572 in the top-level command-parser.
11573 + correction for label format 4 (PC style with info line), a
11574 slk_clear(), slk_restore() sequence didn't redraw the info line
11576 + modified the slk window (if simulated) to inherit the background and
11577 default character attributes from stdscr (Juergen Pfeifer).
11578 + corrected limit-check in set_top_row (Juergen Pfeifer).
11581 + correct loop-limit in wnoutrefresh(), bug exposed during pipe-testing
11582 had '.lastchar' entry one beyond '._maxx'.
11583 + modify ncurses test-program to work with data piped to it.
11584 + corrected pathname computation in run_tic.sh, removing extra "../"
11585 (reported by Tim Mooney).
11586 + modified configure script to use previous install's location for
11588 + added NetBSD and FreeBSD to platforms that use --prefix=/usr as
11592 + revised xterm terminfo descriptions to reflect the several versions
11593 that are available.
11594 + corrected a pointer reference in dump_entry.c that didn't test if
11595 the pointer was -1.
11598 + correct _nc_mvcur_scrolln for terminals w/o scrolling region.
11599 + add -x option to hashtest to control whether it allows writes to the
11600 lower-right corner.
11601 + ifdef'd (NCURSES_TEST) the logic for _nc_optimize_enable to make it
11602 simpler to construct tests (for double-check of _nc_hash_map tests).
11603 + correct ifdef's for c++ in curses.h
11604 + change default xterm type to xterm-x11r6.
11605 + correct quoting in configure that made man-pages installed with
11606 $datadir instead of actual terminfo path.
11607 + correct whitespace in include/Caps, which caused kf11, clr_eol and
11608 clr_end to be omitted from terminfo.5
11609 + fix memory leaks in delscreen() (adapted from Alexander V Lukyanov).
11610 + improve appearance of marker in multi-selection menu (Juergen
11612 + fix behavior for forms with all fields inactive (Juergen Pfeifer)
11613 + document 'field_index()' (Juergen Pfeifer)
11614 > patch #321 (ESR):
11615 + add some more XENIX keycap translations to include/Caps.
11616 + modify newwin to set initial state of each line to 'touched'
11617 (from patch by Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.dialix.com>)
11618 + in SET_TTY, replace TCSANOW with TCSADRAIN (Alexander V Lukyanov).
11621 + ifdef'd out _nc_hash_map (still slower)
11622 + add graphic characters to vt52 description.
11623 + use PutAttrChar in ClrToEOL to ensure proper background, position.
11624 + simplify/correct logic in 'mvcur()' that does wrapping; it was
11625 updating the position w/o actually moving the cursor, which broke
11627 + ensure that 'doupdate()' sets the .oldindex values back to a sane
11628 state; this was causing a spurious refresh in ncurses 'r'.
11629 + add logic to configure (from vile) to guard against builders who
11630 don't remove config.cache & config.status when doing new builds -TD
11631 + corrected logic for 'repeat_char' in EmitRange (cf: eric #317), which
11632 did not follow the 2-parameter scheme specified in XSI.
11633 + corrected logic of wrefresh, wnoutrefresh broken in #319, making
11634 clearok work properly (report by Michael Elkins).
11635 + corrected problem with endwin introduced by #314 (removing the
11636 scrolling-region reset) that broke ncurses.c tests.
11637 + corrected order of args in AC_CHECK_LIB (from report by Ami Fischman
11638 <fischman@math.ucla.edu>).
11639 + corrected formatting of terminfo.5 tables (Juergen Ehling)
11641 + change ABI to 3.3
11642 + emit a carriage-return in 'endwin()' to workaround a kernel bug in
11643 BSDI. (requested by Mike Karels <karels@redrock.bsdi.com>)
11644 + reverse the default o configure --enable-termcap (consensus).
11646 + modified logic for clearok and related functions (from report by
11647 Michael Elkins) - untested
11649 + correction to #317.
11651 + re-add _nc_hash_map
11652 + modify EmitRange to maintain position as per original design
11653 (patch by A. Lukyanov).
11654 + modify test/ncurses.c and tputs, etc., to allow trace counting
11656 + add hashtest.c program to time the hashmap optimization.
11658 + add logic to deal with magic-cookie (how was this tested?)
11660 + add ncurses.c driver for magic-cookie, some fixes to ncurses.c
11662 + merge changes to lib_doupdate.c to use ech and rep - untested
11663 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11664 + modified handling of interrupted system calls - untested
11665 (lib_getch.c, lib_twait.c).
11666 + new function _nc_mvcur_resume()
11667 + fix return value for 'overlay()', 'overwrite()'
11670 + implement subwindow-logic in wresize, minor fixes to ncurses 'g'
11672 + corrected bracketing of fallback.c (reported/suggested fix by Juergen
11673 Ehling <eh@eclipse.aball.de>).
11674 + update xterm-color to reflect XFree86 3.1.3G release.
11675 + correct broken dtterm description from #314 patch (e.g., spurious
11676 newline. The 'pairs' change might work, but no one's tested it
11678 + clarify the documentation for the builtin form fieldtypes (Juergen
11681 + reset scroll region on startup rather than at wrapup time
11682 (enhancement suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11683 + make storage of palette tables and their size counts per-screen for
11684 multi-terminal applications (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11685 + Improved error reporting for infotocap translation errors.
11686 + Update terminfo.src to 9.13.14.
11689 + rewrote wgetstr to make it erase control chars and also fix bogus use
11690 of _nc_outstr which caused the display to not wrap properly (display
11691 problem reported by John M. Flinchbaugh <glynis@netrax.net>)
11692 + modify ncurses 'f' test to accommodate terminal responses to C1 codes
11693 (and split up this screen to accommodate non-ANSI terminals).
11694 + test enter_insert_mode and exit_insert_mode in has_ic().
11695 + removed bogus logic in mvcur that assumes nl/nonl set output modes
11696 (XSI says they are input modes; SVr4 implements this).
11697 + added macros SET_TTY, GET_TTY to term.h
11698 + correct getstr() logic that altered terminal modes w/o restoring.
11699 + disable ICRNL, etc., during initialization to match SVr4, removing
11700 the corresponding logic from raw, cbreak, etc.
11701 + disable ONLCR during initialization, to match SVr4 (this is needed
11702 for cursor optimization when the cursor-down is a newline).
11703 + replaced ESR's imitation of wresize with my original (his didn't
11707 + memory leaks (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11708 + modified pnoutrefresh() to be more tolerant of too-large screen
11709 size (reported by Michael Elkins).
11710 + correct handling of terminfo files with no strings (Philippe De
11712 + correct "tic -s" to take into account -I, -C options.
11713 + modify ncurses 'f' test to not print codes 80 through 9F, since they
11714 are considered control codes by ANSI terminals.
11717 + correct speed variable-type in 'tgetent()' (reported by Peter Wemm)
11718 + make "--enable-getcap" configuration-option work (reported by
11719 Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM>)
11722 + correct err in 960817 that changed return-value of tigetflag()
11723 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11724 + modify infocmp to use library default search-path for terminfo
11725 directory (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11728 + corrected an err in mvcur that broke resizing-behavior.
11729 + correct fall-thru behavior of _nc_read_entry(), which was not finding
11730 descriptions that existed in directories past the first one searched
11731 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov)
11732 + corrected typo in dtterm description.
11734 + add dtterm description
11735 + clarify ncurses 'i' test (drop mvwscanw subtest)
11738 + correct nl()/nonl() to work as per SVr4 & XSI.
11739 + minor fixes to ncurses.c (use 'noraw()', mvscanw return-code)
11740 + refine configure-test for "-g" option (Tim Mooney).
11741 + correct interaction between O_BLANK and NEW_LINE request in form
11742 library (Juergen Pfeifer)
11745 + revised fix to tparm; previous fix reversed parameter order.
11747 correct terminfo.src corrupted by #310
11749 + fix idlok() and idcok() and the default of the idlok switch (report
11753 + corrected tparm to handle capability strings without explicit pop
11754 (reported by William P Setzer)
11755 + add fallback def for GCC_NORETURN, GCC_UNUSED for termcap users
11756 (reported by Tim Mooney).
11758 + documentation and prototyping errors for has_color, immedok and idcok
11759 (reported by William P Setzer <wsetzer@pams.ncsu.edu>)
11760 + updated qnx terminfo entry (patch by Michael Hunter)
11763 + eliminate quoted includes in ncurses subdirectory, ensure config.h
11765 + newterm initializes terminal settings the same as initscr (reported
11769 + call cbreak() in initscr(), as per XSI & SVr4.
11770 + turn off hardware echo in initscr() as per XSI & SVr4
11772 + terminfo changes (9.3.9), from BRL
11773 + add more checks to terminfo parser.
11774 + add more symbols to infocmp.
11777 + save previous-attribute in lib_vidattr.c if SP is null (reported by
11778 Juergen Fluk <louis@dachau.marco.de>)
11779 + corrected calls on _nc_render so that background character is set
11781 + corrected wbkgdset macro (XSI allows background character to be
11782 null), and tests that use it.
11783 + more corrections to terminfo (xterm & rxvt)
11784 + undid change to mcprint prototype (cannot use size_t in curses.h
11785 because not all systems declare it in the headers that we can safely
11787 + move the ifdefs for errno into curses.priv.h
11789 + terminfo changes (9.3.8)
11790 + modified logic of error-reporting in terminfo parser
11791 + fix option-processing bug in toe.
11794 + always check for <sys/bsdtypes.h> since ISC needs it to declare
11795 fd_set (Juergen Pfeifer)
11796 + install shared-libraries on NetBSD/FreeBSD with ABI-version (reported
11797 by Juergen Pfeifer, Mike Long)
11798 + add LOCAL_LDFLAGS2 symbol (Juergen Pfeifer)
11799 + corrected prototype for delay_output() -- bump ABI to 3.2
11801 + enable more translations of nonstandard caps, and document them.
11802 + misc/terminfo.src update to 9.13.8
11804 + moved logic that filters out rmul and rmso from setupterm to newterm
11805 where it is less likely to interfere with termcap applications.
11806 + cosmetic fixes to test/ncurses.c
11807 + modify open() call in ncurses/read_entry.c to use O_RDONLY symbol
11808 rather than constant (report by mib).
11809 + misc/terminfo.src sgr0 and acsc changes (report by Philippe De
11811 + modify ncurses/comp_parse.c so that entries containing a "+" can
11812 have missing rmcup vs smcup.
11815 + rollback ESR's #305 change to terminfo.src (it breaks existing
11816 applications, e.g., 'less 290').
11817 + correct path of edit_man.sh, and fix typo that made all man-pages
11819 + restore man/menu_requestname.3x omitted in Zeyd's resync (oops).
11820 + auto-configure the GCC_PRINTFLIKE/GCC_SCANFLIKE macros (reported by
11821 Philippe De Muyter).
11824 + make lib_vidattr.c more readable using macros.
11825 + filter out rmul, rmso that conflict with sgr0 when reading terminal
11827 + work around autoconf bug, force $INSTALL to absolute path
11828 (reported by Zeyd).
11829 + modify man-page install for BSDI to install preformatted .0 files
11830 (reported by David MacKenzie).
11831 + add/use gcc __attribute__ for printf and scanf in curses.h
11832 + added SGR attributes test-case to ncurses
11833 + revised ncurses 't' logic to show trace-disable effect in the menu.
11834 + use getopt in ncurses program to process -s and -t options.
11835 + make ncurses 'p' legend toggle with '?'
11836 + disable scrollok during the ncurses 'p' test; if it is enabled the
11837 stdscr will scroll when putting the box-corners in the lower-right
11840 + added sanity-checking of various paired string attributes.
11841 + misc/terminfo.src update to 9.13.7 (report by A. Lukyanov).
11842 + modify man/Makefile.in to make terminfo.5 during normal build.
11844 + corrected allocation-length for $HOME/.terminfo path.
11847 + check return code of _nc_mvcur_scrolln() in _nc_scroll_optimize() for
11848 terminals with no scrolling-support (reported by Nikolay Shadrin
11849 <queen@qh.mirea.ac.ru>)
11850 + added ^S scrollok-toggle to ncurses 'g' test.
11851 + added ^T trace-toggle to ncurses tests.
11852 + modified ncurses test program to use ^Q or ESC consistently for
11853 terminating tests (rather than ^D), and to use control keys rather
11854 than function keys in 'g' test.
11855 + corrected misplaced wclrtoeol calls in addch to accommodate wrapping
11856 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
11857 + modify lib_doupdate.c to use effective costs to tradeoff between
11858 delete-character/insert-character vs normal updating (reported by
11860 + compute effective costs for screen update operations (e.g., clr_eos,
11862 + corrected error in knight.c exposed by wrap fixes in 960622; the
11863 msgwin needed scrollok set.
11864 + corrected last change to IDcTransformLine logic to avoid conflict
11865 between PutRange and InsStr
11866 + modified run_tic.sh to not use /usr/tmp (reported by David
11867 MacKenzie), and further revised it and aclocal.m4 to use $TMPDIR if
11869 + corrected off-by-one in RoomFor call in read_entry.c
11872 + modified logic that wraps cursor in addch to follow the XSI spec,
11873 (implemented in SVr4) which states that the cursor position is
11874 updated when wrapping. Renamed _NEED_WRAP to _WRAPPED to reflect the
11876 + added -s option to tic, to provide better diagnostics in run_tic.sh
11877 + improved error-recovery for tabset install.
11878 + change ABI to 3.1 (dropped tparam, corrected getbkgd(), added
11879 _yoffset to WINDOW).
11880 + modified initialization of SP->_ofp so that init_acs() is called with
11881 the "right" file pointer (reported by Rick Marshall <rjm@nlc.net.au>
11882 + documentation fixes (Juergen Pfeifer).
11883 + corrected, using new SCREEN and WINDOW members, the behavior of
11884 ncurses if one uses ripoffline() to remove a line from the top of the
11885 screen (Juergen Pfeifer).
11886 + modified autoconf scripts to prepare for Ada95 (GNAT) binding to
11887 ncurses (Juergen Pfeifer).
11888 + incorrect buffer-size in _nc_read_entry, reported by ESR.
11891 + corrected two logic errors in read_entry.c, write_entry.c (called by
11892 tic, the write/read of terminfo entries used inconsistent rules for
11893 locating the entries; the $TERMINFO_DIRS code would find only the
11894 first entry in a list).
11895 + refined pathname computation in run_tic.sh and shlib.
11896 + corrected initialization of $IP in misc/run_tic.sh
11899 + ifdef'd out _nc_hash_map() call because it does not improve speed.
11900 + display version of gcc if configure script identifies it.
11901 + modify configure script to use /usr as Linux's default prefix.
11902 + modify run_tic.sh to use shlib script, fixes some problems installing
11903 with a shared-library configuration.
11904 + adjusted configure script so that it doesn't run tests with the
11905 warnings turned on, which makes config.log hard to read.
11906 + added 'lint' rule to top-level Makefile.
11907 + added configure option '--with-install-prefix' for use by system
11908 builders to install into staging locations (requested by
11909 Charles Levert <charles@comm.polymtl.ca>).
11910 + corrected autoconfigure for Debian man program; it's not installed
11912 + set noecho in 'worm'; it was ifdef'd for debug only
11913 + updated test/configure.in for timing-display in ncurses 'p' test
11914 + corrected misspelled 'getbkgd()'.
11915 + corrected wbkgdset to work like observed syvr4 (sets A_CHARTEXT part
11916 to blank if no character given, copies attributes to window's
11918 + modified lib_doupdate.c to use lower-level SP's current_attr state
11919 instead of curscr's state, since it is redundant.
11920 + correction to IDcTransformLine logic which controls where InsStr is
11921 invoked (refined by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11923 + conditionally include Chris Torek's hash function _nc_hash_map().
11924 + better fix for nvi refresh-bug (Rick Marshall)
11925 + fix for bug in handling of interrupted keystroke waits,
11927 + misc/ncurses-intro.html syntax fix (Kajiyama Tamito).
11930 + auto-configure man-page compression-format and renames for Debian.
11931 + corrected several typos in curses.h.in (i.e., the mvXXXX macros).
11932 + re-order curses.priv.h for lint.
11933 + added rules for lintlib, lint
11934 + corrected ifdef for BROKEN_LINKER in MKnames.awk.in
11935 + corrected missing INSTALL_DATA in misc/Makefile.in
11936 + flush output when changing cursor-visibility (Rick Marshall)
11937 + fix a minor bug in the _nc_ripoff() routine and improve error
11938 checking when creating the label window (Juergen Pfeifer).
11939 + enhancement to the control over the new PC-style soft key format.
11940 allow caller now to select whether or not one wants to have
11941 the index-line; see curs_slk.3x for documentation (Juergen Pfeifer).
11942 + typos, don't use inline with "-g" (Philippe De Muyter)
11943 + fixes for menus & wattr-, slk-functions (Juergen Pfeifer)
11946 + removed --with-ticdir option altogether, maintain compatibility with
11947 existing applications via symbolic link in run_tic.sh
11948 + patch for termio.h, signal (Philippe De Muyter)
11949 + auto-configure gcc warning options rather than infer from version.
11950 + auto-configure __attribute__ for different gcc versions.
11951 + corrected special use of clearok() in hardscroll.c by resetting flag
11953 + include stdlib.h before defs for EXIT_SUCCESS, for OSF/1.
11954 + include sys/types.h in case stdlib.h does not declare size_t.
11955 + fixes for makefile (Tim Mooney)
11956 + fixes for menus & forms (Juergen Pfeifer)
11958 + improve hash function (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11959 + 9.13.4 update for terminfo.src
11962 + revised ncurses.c panner test, let pad abut all 4 sides of screen.
11963 + refined case in lib_doupdate.c for ClrToEOL().
11964 + corrected prior change for PutRange (Alexander V Lukyanov
11965 <lav@yars.free.net>).
11966 + autoconf mods (Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>).
11967 + locale fix for forms (Philippe De Muyter <phdemuyt@ulb.ac.be>)
11968 + renamed "--with-datadir" option to "--with-ticdir" to avoid
11969 confusion, and made this check for the /usr/lib/terminfo pre-existing
11971 > patches 299-301 (ESR):
11972 + html fixes (Phillippe de Muyter).
11973 + fix typo in ncurses-intro.html (report by Fabrizio Polacco).
11975 + mods to tracing, especially for ACS chars.
11976 + corrected off-by-one in IDCtransform.
11977 + corrected intermittent mouse bug by using return-value from read().
11978 + mods to parse_entry.c, for smarter defaults.
11981 + use getopt in 'tic'; added -L option and modified -e option to allow
11985 + don't use fixed buffer-size in tparm().
11986 + modified tic to create terminfo directory if it doesn't exist.
11987 + added -T options to tic and infocmp (for testing/analysis)
11988 + refined the length criteria for termcap and terminfo
11989 + optimize lib_doupdate with memcpy, PutRange
11990 > patches 297, 298 (ESR):
11991 + implement TERMINFO_DIRS, and -o option of tic
11992 + added TRACE_IEVENT
11993 + fix REQ_TOGGLE_ITEM in menu/menu_driver.c; it could select but not
11995 + added lib_print.c (request by Rick Marshall).
11996 + added has_key() (request by Juergen Pfeifer).
11997 + do not issue clrtoeol or clrtobot if the relevant portion of the line
11998 is already blank (analysis by Keith Bostic).
11999 + add parentheses for parameters of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER macros
12000 (analysis by Jurgen Eidt).
12001 + update screen's notion of cursor position in endwin() (analysis by
12002 Alexander Lukyanov).
12003 + added 't' to ncurses.c test.
12004 + moved delay_output() to lib_tputs.c
12005 + removed tparam() (was added in 1.9.9, but conflicts with emacs and
12006 is not part of X/Open Curses).
12007 + removed boolean version of 'getm'.
12008 + misc cursor & optimization fixes.
12011 + modified ncurses 'p' test to allow full-screen range for panner size.
12012 + fixes for locale (Philippe De Muyter <phdm@labauto1.ulb.ac.be>)
12013 + don't use fixed buffer-size in fmt_entry().
12014 + added usage-message to 'infocmp'.
12015 + modified install.includes rules to prepend subdirectory-name to
12016 "#include" if needed.
12019 + protect wrefresh, wnoutrefresh from invocation with pad argument.
12020 + corrected default CCFLAGS in test/Makefile.
12023 + implemented logic to support terminals with background color erase
12024 (e.g., rxvt and the newer color xterm).
12025 + improved screen update logic (off-by-one logic error; use clr_eos if
12029 + change ncurses 'a' test to run in raw mode.
12030 + make TIOCGWINSZ configure test less stringent, in case user
12031 configures via terminal that cannot get screen size.
12032 > patches 295, 296 (ESR):
12033 + split lib_kernel.c, lib_setup.c and names.c in order to reduce
12034 overhead for programs that use only termcap features.
12035 + new "-e" and "-h" options of tic (request by Tony Nugent).
12036 + fix bug in mandatory-delay logic in lib_tputs.c (report by Sven
12038 + fix for "infocmp -e" to emit correct initializers (reported by Manual
12040 + restore working-directory in read_termcap.c (report by Kayvan
12042 + use "-h" option on Solaris when generating shared libraries on
12043 Solaris 2.5 to record the library name in the file, for assisting
12044 the loader (patch by Scott Kramer).
12045 + undo patch #294 changes to form and menu libraries (request by
12050 + fix for AIX 3.2.5 (must define _POSIX_SOURCE to get termios struct
12051 definitions via <termios.h>, modified macros in lib_raw.c to avoid
12052 K&R-style substitution)
12053 > patches 293, 294 (ESR):
12054 + rewrite wsyncup(), wsyncdown(), as well as small fixes to form and
12055 menu libraries to fix echo-breakage introduced by 1.8.9, 1.9.9e
12056 changes (patches by Juergen Pfeifer).
12057 + fix compile under QNX 4.2 by defining ONLCR in lib_raw.c when
12058 __QNX__ is defined (patch by Michael Hunter).
12059 + modify setupterm() to match documentation for its return value, fix
12060 newterm to work with this change (report by Emmet Lazich).
12061 + add checks in getch() for error, return ERR as appropriate (report by
12063 + mods to wgetch() in cooked mode (report by Pete Seebach).
12064 + corrected askuser() logic in tset (patch by Remco Treffkorn).
12065 + correct interaction of endwin() with mouse processing (report by
12067 + added trace support for TTY flags
12068 + update terminfo.src to 9.13.1
12069 + FreeBSD console entries (patch by Andrew Chernov).
12072 + fixes for NeXT, ISC and HPUX auto-configure
12073 + autogenerate development header-dependencies (config.h, *.priv.h)
12074 + corrected single-column formatting of "use=" (e.g., in tic)
12075 + modify tic to read full terminfo-names
12076 + corrected divide-by-zero that caused hang (or worse) when redirecting
12078 + modify tic to generate directories only as-needed (and corrected
12079 instance of use of data from function that had already returned).
12081 ### ncurses-1.9.8a -> 1.9.9e
12083 * fixed broken wsyncup()/wysncdown(), as a result wnoutrefresh() now has
12084 copy-changed-lines behavior.
12085 * added and documented wresize() function.
12086 * more fixes to LOWER-RIGHT corner handling.
12087 * changed the line-breakout optimization code to allow some lines to be
12088 emitted before the first check.
12089 * added option for tic to use symbolic instead of hard links (for AFS)
12090 * fix to restore auto-wrap mode.
12091 * trace level can be controlled by environment variable.
12092 * better handling of NULs in terminal descriptions.
12093 * improved compatibility with observed SVR4 behavior.
12094 * the refresh behavior of over-lapping windows is now more efficient and
12096 * use autoconf 2.7, which results in a working setup for SCO 5.0.
12097 * support for ESCDELAY.
12098 * small fixes for menu/form code.
12099 * the test directory has its own configure.
12100 * fixes to pads when optimizing scrolling.
12101 * fixed several off-by-one bugs.
12102 * fixes for termcap->terminfo translation; less restrictions more correct
12105 ### ncurses-1.9.7 -> 1.9.8a
12107 * teach infocmp -i to recognize ECMA highlight sequences
12108 * infocmp now dumps all SVr4 termcaps (not just the SVr4 ones) on -C
12109 * support infocmp -RBSD.
12110 * satisfy XSI Curses requirement that every macro be available as a function.
12111 * This represents the last big change to the public interface of ncurses. The
12112 ABI_VERSION has now been set at 3.0 and should stay there barring any great
12113 catastrophies or acts of God.
12114 * The C++ has been cleaned up in reaction to the changes to satisfy XSI's
12116 * libncurses now gets linked to libcurses to help seamless emulation
12117 (replacement) of a vendor's curses. --disable-overwrite turns this behavior
12120 ### ncurses-1.9.6 -> 1.9.7
12122 * corrected return values of setupterm()
12123 * Fixed some bugs in tput (it does padding now)
12124 * fixed a bug in tic that made it do the wrong thing on entries with more than
12125 one `use' capability.
12126 * corrected the screen-size calculation at startup time to alter the
12127 numeric capabilities as per SVr4, not just LINES and COLS.
12128 * toe(1) introduced; does what infocmp -T used to.
12129 * tic(1) can now translate AIX box1 and font[0123] capabilities.
12130 * tic uses much less core, the dotic.sh kluge can go away now.
12131 * fix read_entry() and write_entry() to pass through cancelled capabilities OK.
12132 * Add $HOME/.terminfo as source/target directory for terminfo entries.
12133 * termcap compilation now automatically dumps an entry to $HOME/.terminfo.
12134 * added -h option to toe(1).
12135 * added -R option to tic(1) and infocmp(1).
12136 * added fallback-entry-list feature.
12137 * added -i option to infocmp(1).
12138 * do a better job at detecting if we're on SCO.
12140 ### ncurses-1.9.5 -> 1.9.6
12142 * handling of TERMCAP environment variables now works correctly.
12143 * various changes to shorten termcap translations to less that 1024 chars.
12145 * mouse support for xterm.
12146 * most data tables are now const and accordingly live in shareable text space.
12147 * Obey the XPG4/SVr4 practice that echo() is initally off.
12148 * tic is much better at translating XENIX and AIX termcap entries now.
12149 * tic can interpret ko capabilities now.
12150 * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's forms library.
12151 * taught write_entry() how not to write more than it needs to; this change
12152 reduces the size of the terminfo tree by a full 26%!
12153 * infocmp -T option added.
12154 * better warnings about historical tic quirks from tic.
12156 ### ncurses 1.9.4 -> 1.9.5
12158 * menus library is now included with documentation.
12159 * lib_mvcur has been carefully profiled and tuned.
12160 * Fixed a ^Z-handling bug that was tanking lynx(1).
12161 * HJ Lu's patches for ELF shared libraries under Linux
12162 * terminfo.src 9.8.2
12163 * tweaks for compiling in seperate directories.
12164 * Thomas Dickey's patches to support NeXT's brain-dead linker
12165 * Eric Raymond's patches to fix problems with long termcap entries.
12166 * more support for shared libraries under SunOS and IRIX.
12168 ### ncurses 1.9.3 -> 1.9.4
12170 * fixed an undefined-order-of-evaluation bug in lib_acs.c
12171 * systematically gave non-API public functions and data an _nc_ prefix.
12172 * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's menu code into the distribution.
12173 * totally rewrote the knight test game's interface
12175 ### ncurses 1.9.2c -> 1.9.3
12177 * fixed the TERMCAP_FILE Support.
12178 * fixed off-by-one errors in scrolling code
12179 * added tracemunch to the test tools
12180 * took steps to cut the running time of make install.data
12182 ### ncurses 1.9.2c -> 1.9.2d
12184 * revised 'configure' script to produce libraries for normal, debug,
12185 profile and shared object models.
12187 ### ncurses 1.9.1 -> 1.9.2
12189 * use 'autoconf' to implement 'configure' script.
12190 * panels support added
12191 * tic now checks for excessively long termcap entries when doing translation
12192 * first cut at eliminating namespace pollution.
12194 ### ncurses 1.8.9 -> 1.9
12196 * cleanup gcc warnings for the following: use size_t where 'int' is not
12197 appropriate, fixed some shadowed variables, change attr_t to compatible with
12198 chtype, use attr_t in some places where it was confused with 'int'.
12199 * use chtype/attr_t casts as appropriate to ensure portability of masking
12201 * added-back waddchnstr() to lib_addstr.c (it had been deleted).
12202 * supplied missing prototypes in curses.h
12203 * include <termcap.h> in lib_termcap.c to ensure that the prototypes
12204 are consistent (they weren't).
12205 * corrected prototype of tputs in <termcap.h>
12206 * rewrote varargs parsing in lib_tparm.c (to avoid referencing memory
12207 that may be out of bounds on the stack) -- Purify found this.
12208 * ensure that TRACE is defined in lib_trace.c (to solve prototype
12209 warnings from gcc).
12210 * corrected scrolling-region size in 'mvcur_wrap()'
12211 * more spelling fixes
12212 * use 'calloc()' to allocate WINDOW struct in lib_newwin.c (Purify).
12213 * set default value for SP->_ofp in lib_set_term.c (otherwise SunOS dumps
12214 core in init_acs()).
12215 * include <errno.h> in write_entry.c (most "braindead" includes declare errno
12218 ### ncurses 1.8.8 -> 1.8.9
12220 * compile (mostly) clean with gcc 2.5.8 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
12221 -Wmissing-prototypes -Wconversion and using __attribute__ to flush out
12222 non-portable use of "%x" for pointers, or for chtype data (which is declared
12224 * modified doupdate to ensure that typahead was turned on before attempting
12225 select-call (otherwise, some implementations hang).
12226 * added trace mask TRACE_FIFO, use this in lib_getch.c to allow finer
12227 resolution of traces.
12228 * improved bounds checking on several critical functions.
12229 * the data directory has been replaced by the new master terminfo file.
12230 * -F file-comparison option added to infocmp.
12231 * compatibility with XSI Curses is now documented in the man bages.
12232 * wsyncup/wsyncdown functions are reliable now; subwindow code in general
12233 is much less flaky.
12234 * capabilities ~msgr, tilde_glitch, insert_padding, generic_type, no_pad_char,
12235 memory_above, memory_below, and hard_copy are now used properly.
12236 * cursor-movement optimization has been completely rewritten.
12237 * vertical-movement optimization now uses hardware scrolling, il, dl.
12239 ### ncurses 1.8.7 -> 1.8.8
12240 * untic no longer exists, infocmp replaces it.
12241 * tic can understand termcap now, especially if it is called captoinfo.
12242 * The Linux Standard Console terminfo entry is called linux insead of console.
12243 It also uses the kernel's new method of changing charsets.
12244 * initscr() will EXIT upon error (as the docs say) This wil mostly happen if
12245 you try to run on an undefined terminal.
12246 * I can get things running on AIX but tic can't compile terminfo. I have to
12247 compile entries on another machine. Volunteers to hunt this bug are welcome.
12248 * wbkgd() and wbkgdset() can be used to set a windows background to color.
12249 wclear()/werase() DO NOT use the current attribute to clear the screen.
12250 This is the way SVR4 curses works. PDCurses 2.1 is broken in this respect,
12251 though PDCurses 2.2 has been fixed.
12252 * cleaned up the test/ directory.
12253 * test/worm will segfault after quite a while.
12254 * many spelling corrections courtesy of Thomas E. Dickey
12256 ### ncurses 1.8.6 -> 1.8.7
12257 * cleaned up programs in test/ directory.
12258 * fixed wbkgdset() macro.
12259 * modified getstr() to stop it from advancing cursor in noecho mode.
12260 * modified linux terminfo entry to work with the latest kernel to get
12261 the correct alternate character set.
12262 * also added a linux-mono entry for those running on monochrome screens.
12263 * changed initscr() so that it behaves like the man page says it does.
12264 this fixes the problem with programs in test/ crashing with SIGSEV if
12265 a terminal is undefined.
12266 * modified addch() to avoid using any term.h #define's
12267 * removed duplicate tgoto() in lib_tparm.c
12268 * modified dump_entry.c so that infocmp deals correctly with ',' in acsc
12269 * modified delwin() to correctly handle deleting subwindows.
12270 * fixed Makefile.dist to stop installing an empty curses.h
12271 * fixed a couple of out-of-date notes in man pages.
12273 ### ncurses 1.8.5 -> 1.8.6
12274 * Implemented wbkgd(), bkgd(), bkgdset(), and wbkgdset().
12275 * The handling of attributes has been improved and now does not turn off color
12276 if other attributes are turned off.
12277 * scrolling code is improved. Scrolling in subwindows is still broken.
12278 * Fixes to several bugs that manifest them on platforms other than Linux.
12279 * The default to meta now depends on the status of the terminal when ncurses
12281 * The interface to the tracing facility has changed. Instead of the pair of
12282 functions traceon() and traceoff(), there is just one function trace() which
12283 takes a trace mask argument. The trace masks, defined in curses.h, are
12286 #define TRACE_DISABLE 0x00 /* turn off tracing */
12287 #define TRACE_ORDINARY 0x01 /* ordinary trace mode */
12288 #define TRACE_CHARPUT 0x02 /* also trace all character outputs */
12289 #define TRACE_MAXIMUM 0x0f /* maximum trace level */
12291 More trace masks may be added, or these may be changed, in future releases.
12292 * The pad code has been improved and the pad test code in test/ncurses.c has
12294 * The prototype ansi entry has been changed to work with a wider variety
12296 * Fix to the prototype ansi entry that enables it to work with PC emulators
12297 that treat trailing ";m" in a highlight sequence as ";0m"; this doesn't
12298 break operation with any emulators.
12299 * There are now working infocmp, captoinfo, tput, and tclear utilities.
12300 * tic can now compile entries in termcap syntax.
12301 * Core-dump bug in pnoutrefresh fixed.
12302 * We now recognize and compile all the nonstandard capabilities in Ross
12303 Ridge's mytinfo package (rendering it obsolete).
12304 * General cleanup and documentation improvements.
12305 * Fixes and additions to the installation-documentation files.
12306 * Take cursor to normal mode on endwin.
12308 ### ncurses 1.8.4 -> 1.8.5
12309 * serious bugs in updating screen which caused erratic non-display,
12311 * fixed initialization for getch() related variable which cause
12312 unpredictable results.
12313 * fixed another doupdate bug which only appeared if you have
12315 * implemented redrawln() and redrawwin().
12316 * implemented winsnstr() and related functions.
12317 * cleaned up insertln() and deleteln() and implemented (w)insdeln().
12318 * changed Makefile.dist so that installation of man pages will
12319 take note of the terminfo directory.
12320 * fixed Configure (removed the mysterious 'X').
12321 * Eric S. Raymond fixed the script.* files so that they work with
12324 #### ncurses 1.8.3 -> 1.8.4 #### ####
12325 * fixed bug in refreshing the screen after return from shell_mode.
12326 There are still problems but they don't manifest themselves on
12327 my machine (Linux 0.99.14f).
12328 * added wgetnstr() and modified things accordingly.
12329 * fixed the script.src script.test to work with awk not just gawk.
12330 * Configure can now take an argument of the target system.
12331 * added test/ncurses.c which replaces several other programs and
12332 performs more testing.
12333 [Thanks to Eric S Raymond for the last 4]
12334 * more fixes to lib_overlay.c and added test/over.c to illustrate
12336 * fixed ungetch() to take int instead of ch.
12337 * fixes to cure wgetch() if flushinp() is called.
12339 One note I forgot to mention in 1.8.3 is that tracing is off by
12340 default starting in the version. If you want tracing output, put
12341 traceon(); in your code and link with -ldcurses.
12343 #### ncurses 1.8.2 -> ncurses 1.8.3 #### ####
12345 1) The order of capabilities has been changed in order to achieve
12346 binary compatibility with SVR4 terminfo database. This has the
12347 unfortunate effect of breaking application currently linked with
12348 ncurses. To ensure correct behavior, recompile all such programs.
12349 Most programs using color or newer capabilities will break, others
12350 will probably continue to work ok.
12352 2) Pavel Curtis has renounced his copyright to the public domain.
12353 This means that his original sources (posted to comp.sources.unix,
12354 volume 1) are now in the public domain. The current sources are
12355 NOT in the public domain, they are copyrighted by me. I'm
12356 entertaining ideas on what the new terms ncurses is released under.
12358 3) Eric S. Raymond has supplied a complete set of man pages for
12359 ncurses in ?roff format. They will eventually replace most of the
12360 current docs. Both sets are included in this release.
12362 Other changes and notes from 1.8.2 include:
12363 * SIGSEGV during scrolling no longer occurs.
12364 * Other problems with scrolling and use of idl have been corrected.
12365 * lib_getch.c has been re-written and should perform flawlessly.
12366 please use test/getch.c and any other programs to test this.
12367 * ripoffline() is implemented (Thanks to Eric) and slk_ functions
12368 changed accordingly.
12369 * I've added support for terminals that scroll if you write in the
12370 bottom-right corner.
12371 * fixed more bugs in pads code. If anybody has a program that uses
12372 pads I'd love a copy.
12373 * correct handling for terminal with back_color_erase capability
12374 (such as Linux console, and most PC terminals)
12375 * ^Z handling apparently didn't work (I should never trust code
12376 sent me to me without extensive testing). It now seems to be
12377 fixed. Let me know if you have problems.
12378 * I've added support for Apollo and NeXT, but it may still be
12379 incomplete, especially when dealing with the lack of POSIX
12381 * scrolling should be more efficient on terminals with idl
12382 capabilities. Please see src/lib_scroll.c for more notes.
12383 * The line drawing routines were offset by 1 at both ends. This
12385 * added a few missing prototypes and macros (e.g. setterm())
12386 * fixed code in src/lib_overlay.c which used to crash.
12387 * added a few more programs in test/ The ones from the PDCurses
12388 package are useful, especially if you have SVR4 proper. I'm
12389 interested in the results you get on such a systems (Eric? ;-).
12390 They already exposed certain bugs in ncurses.
12391 * See src/README for porting notes.
12392 * The C++ code should really replace ncurses.h instead of working
12393 around it. It should avoid name-space clashes with nterm.h (use
12394 rows instead of lines, etc.)
12395 * The C++ should compile ok. I've added explicit rules to the
12396 Makefile because no C++ defaults are documented on the suns.
12397 * The docs say that echo() and nocbreak() are mutually exclusive.
12398 At the moment ncurses will switch to cbreak() if the case above
12399 occurs. Should it continue to do so? How about echo() and noraw()?
12400 * PDCurses seem to assume that wclear() will use current attribute
12401 when clearing the screen. According to Eric this is not the case
12403 * I have discovered, to my chagrin, SunOS 4.x (and probably other systems)
12404 * doesn't have vsscanf and God knows what else! I've will do a vsscanf().
12405 * I've also found out that the src/script.* rely on gawk and will not
12406 work with stock awk or even with nawk. Any changes are welcome.
12407 * Linux is more tolerant of NULL dereferences than most systems. This
12408 fact was exposed by hanoi.
12409 * ncurses still seems inefficient in drawing the screen on a serial
12410 link between Linux and suns. The padding may be the culprit.
12411 * There seems to be one lingering problem with doupdate() after shelling
12412 out. Despite the fact the it is sending out the correct information
12413 to the terminal, nothing takes effect until you press ^L or another
12414 refresh takes place. And yes, output does get flushed.
12416 #### ncurses 1.8.1 -> ncurses 1.8.2 #### Nov 28, 1993 ####
12418 * added support for SVR4 and BSDI's BSD/386.
12419 * major update and fix to scrolling routine.
12420 * MORE fixes to stuff in lib_getch.c.
12421 * cleaned-up configuration options and can now generate
12422 Config.* files through an awk script.
12423 * changed setupterm() so it can be called more than once,
12424 add added set_curterm(), del_curterm().
12425 * a few minor cleanups.
12426 * added more prototypes in curses.h
12428 #### ncurses 1.8 -> ncurses 1.8.1 #### Nov 4, 1993 ####
12430 * added support for NeXTStep 3.0
12431 * added termcap emulation (not well tested).
12432 * more complete C++ interface to ncurses.
12433 * fixed overlay(), overwrite(), and added copywin().
12434 * a couple of bug fixes.
12435 * a few code cleanups.
12437 #### ncurses 0.7.2/0.7.3 -> ncurses 1.8 #### Aug 31, 1993 ####
12439 * The annoying message "can't open file." was due to missing
12440 terminfo entry for the used terminal. It has now been
12441 replaced by a hopefully more helpful message.
12442 * Problems with running on serial lines are now fixed.
12443 * Added configuration files for SunOS, Linux, HP/UX, Ultrix,
12444 386bsd/BSDI (if you have others send'em to me)
12445 * Cleaner Makefile.
12446 * The documentation in manual.doc is now more uptodate.
12447 * update optimization and support for hp terminals, and 386bsd
12449 * mvcur optimization for terminals without cursor addressing
12450 (doesn't work on Linux)
12451 * if cursor moved since last update, getch() will refresh the
12452 screen before working.
12453 * getch() & alarm() can now live together. in 0.7.3 a signal
12454 interrupted getch() (bug or feature?) now the getch is
12456 * scanw() et all were sick, now fixed.
12457 * support for 8-bit input (use meta()).
12458 * added default screen size to all terminfos.
12459 * added c++ Ncursesw class.
12460 * several minor bug fixes.
12462 #### ncurses 0.7.2 -> ncurses 0.7.3 #### May 27, 1993 ####
12464 * Config file to cope with different platforms (386BSD, BSDI, Ultrix, SunOS)
12465 * more fixes to lib_getch.c
12466 * changes related to Config
12468 #### ncurses 0.7 -> ncurses 0.7.2 #### May 22, 1993 ####
12470 * docs updated slightly (color usage is now documented).
12471 * yet another fix for getch(), this one fixes problems with ESC being swallowed
12472 if another character is typed before the 1 second timeout.
12473 * Hopefully, addstr() and addch() are 8-bit clean.
12474 * fixed lib_tparm.c to use stdarg.h (should run on suns now)
12475 * order of capabilities changed to reflect that specified in SYSV
12476 this will allow for binary-compatibility with existing terminfo dbs.
12477 * added halfdelay()
12478 * fixed problems with asc_init()
12479 * added A_PROTECT and A_INVIS
12480 * cleaned up vidputs()
12481 * general cleanup of the code
12482 * more attention to portability to other systems
12483 * added terminfos for hp70092 (wont work until changes to lib_update.c are
12484 made) and 386BSD pcvt drivers.
12486 Thanks to Hellmuth Michaelis for his help.
12487 optimization code is slated for the next major release, stay tuned!
12489 #### ncurses 0.6/0.61 -> ncurses 0.7 #### April 1, 1993
12490 Please note that the next release will be called 1.8. If you want to know about
12491 the rationale drop me a line.
12493 Included are several test programs in test/.
12494 I've split up the panels library, reversi, tetris, sokoban. They are now
12495 available separately from netcom.com:pub/zmbenhal/
12497 * color and ACS support is now fully compatible with SYSV at the terminfo
12499 * Capabilities now includes as many SYSV caps I could find.
12500 * tigetflag,tigetnum,tigetstr functions added.
12501 * boolnames, boolfnames, boolcodes numnames, numfnames, numcodes,
12502 strnames, strfnames, strcodes arrays are now added.
12503 * keyname() is added.
12504 * All function keys can be defined in terminfo entries.
12505 * fixed lin_tparm.c to behave properly.
12506 * terminfo entries for vt* and xterm are included (improvements are welcome)
12507 * more automation in handling caps and keys.
12508 * included fixes from 0.6.1
12509 * added a few more missing functions.
12510 * fixed a couple of minor bugs.
12511 * updated docs JUST a little (still miles behind in documenting the newer
12514 #### ncurses 0.6 -> ncurses 0.61 ####
12516 1) Included the missing data/console.
12518 2) allow attributes when drawing boxes.
12520 3) corrected usage of win->_delay value.
12522 4) fixed a bug in lib_getch.c. if it didn't recognize a sequence it would
12523 simply return the last character in the sequence. The correct
12524 behavior is to return the entire sequence one character at a time.
12526 #### ncurses0.5 -> ncurses0.6 #### March 1, 1993 ####
12527 * removed _numchngd from struct _win_st and made appropriate changes.
12528 * rewritten kgetch() to remove problems with interaction between alarm and
12529 read(). It caused SIGSEGV every now and then.
12530 * fixed a bug that miscounted the numbers of columns when updating.
12531 (in lib_doupdate.c(ClrUpdate() -- iterate to columns not columns-1)
12532 * fixed a bug that cause the lower-right corner to be incorrect.
12533 (in lib_doupdate.c(putChar() -- check against columns not columns-1)
12534 * made resize() and cleanup() static to lib_newterm.c
12535 * added notimeout().
12536 * added timeout() define in curses.h
12537 * added more function prototypes and fixed napms.
12539 * moved screen size detection to lib_setup.c.
12540 * fixed newterm() to confirm to prototype.
12541 * removed SIGWINCH support as SYSV does not define its semantics.
12542 * cleaned-up lib_touch.c
12543 * added waddnstr() and relatives.
12544 * added slk_* support.
12545 * fixed a bug in wdeleteln().
12546 * added PANEL library.
12547 * modified Makefile for smoother installation.
12548 * terminfo.h is really term.h
12550 #### ncurses 0.4 -> ncurses 0.5 #### Feb 14, 1993 ####
12551 * changed _win_st structure to allow support for missing functionality.
12552 * Addition of terminfo support for all KEY_*.
12553 * Support for nodelay(), timeout(), notimeout().
12554 * fixed a bug with the keypad char reading that did not return ESC until
12555 another key is pressed.
12556 * nl mapping no longer occur on output (as should be)
12557 fixed bug '\n' no causing a LF.
12558 * fixed bug that reset terminal colors regardless of whether we use color
12560 * Better support for ACS (not quite complete).
12561 * fixed bug in wvline().
12562 * added curs_set().
12563 * changed from signal() to sigaction().
12564 * re-included the contents of important.patch into source.
12566 #### ncurses 0.3 -> ncurses 0.4 #### Feb 3, 1993 ####
12567 * Addition of more KEY_* definitions.
12568 * Addition of function prototypes.
12569 * Addition of several missing functions.
12570 * No more crashes if screen size is undefined (use SIGWINCH handler).
12571 * added a handler to cleanup after SIGSEGV (hopefully never needed).
12572 * changed SRCDIR from /etc/term to /usr/lib/terminfo.
12573 * renamed compile/dump to tic/untic.
12574 * New scrolling code.
12575 * fixed bug that reversed the sense of nl() and nonl().
12577 #### ncurses 0.2 -> ncurses 0.3 #### Jan 20, 1993 ####
12578 * more support for color and graphics see test/ for examples.
12579 * fixed various files to allow correct update after shelling out.
12580 * more fixes for updates.
12581 * no more core dumps if you don't have a terminfo entry.
12582 * support for LINES and COLUMNS environment variables.
12583 * support for SIGWINCH signal.
12584 * added a handler for SIGINT for clean exits.
12586 #### ncurses 0.1 -> ncurses 0.2 #### Aug 14, 1992 ####
12587 * support for color.
12588 * support for PC graphic characters.
12589 * lib_trace.c updated to use stdarg.h and vprintf routines.
12590 * added gdc.c (Great Digital Clock) as an example of using color.
12592 #### ncurses -> ncurses 0.1 #### Jul 31, 1992 ####
12593 * replacing sgtty stuff by termios stuff.
12594 * ANSIfication of some functions.
12595 * Disabling cost analysis 'cause it's incorrect.
12596 * A quick hack for a terminfo entry.
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